The use of newly developed real-time PCR for the rapid identification of bacteria in culture-negative osteomyelitis. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We report a case of a culture-negative osteomyelitis in which our newly developed real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) could differentiate Staphylococcus aureus from Staphylococcus epidermidis. This is the first report that described the application of this novel assay to an orthopedics clinical sample. This assay may be useful for other clinical culture-negative cases in a combination with a broad-spectrum assay as a rapid microorganism identification method.

publication date

  • March 24, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Osteomyelitis
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Staphylococcal Infections
  • Staphylococcus aureus

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33845490411

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.jbspin.2005.11.014

PubMed ID

  • 16650790

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 73

issue

  • 6