Impact of rapid detection of viral and atypical bacterial pathogens by real-time polymerase chain reaction for patients with lower respiratory tract infection
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2005Vol. 41pp. -
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Abstract
Implementation of real-time PCR for the etiological diagnosis of LRTI increased the diagnostic yield considerably, but it did not reduce antibiotic use or costs.