IDCases (Jan 2016)

Detection of bacterial pathogens in synovial and pleural fluid with the FilmArray Blood Culture Identification System

  • Athanasios Michos,
  • Alexandra Palili,
  • Emmanouil I. Koutouzis,
  • Adina Sandu,
  • Lilia Lykopoulou,
  • Vassiliki P. Syriopoulou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.05.006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. C
pp. 27 – 28

Abstract

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We report the use of FilmArray Blood Culture Identification (BCID) multiplex PCR system for pathogen detection from a child with septic arthritis that Streptococcus pyogenes was identified directly from synovial fluid and a child with complicated pneumonia with pleural effusion that Streptococcus pneumoniae was identified from pleural fluid.

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