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Comparative study of different molecular and microbiological diagnostic methods of infective endocarditis /

Reem Mostafa Mohamed

Comparative study of different molecular and microbiological diagnostic methods of infective endocarditis / دراسة مقارنة لطرق تشخيص التهاب صمامات القلب المختلفة الميكروبيولوجية و البيولوجية الجزئية Reem Mostafa Mohamed ; Supervised Nevieen Elrasheedy , Hussein Rizk , Mervat Baber - Cairo : Reem Mostafa Mohamed , 2012 - 206 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology

The diagnosis of infective endocarditis, particularly in blood culture negative patients have been a problem that required all the efforts to solve, as blood culture positivity was the corner stone of diagnosis. The aim of this work is to evaluate broad range PCR followed by sequencing using 16SrDNA and 18-28SrDNA and value of serological testing in the diagnosis of IE



16SrDNA PCR Blood culture Infective endocarditis