Multiplex PCR reveals high prevalence of enterovirus and HHV6 in acellular paediatric cerebrospinal fluid samples

J Infect. 2018 Sep;77(3):249-257. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.05.008. Epub 2018 May 29.

¹ Microbiology Department, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Mandeville Road, Bucks HP21 8AL, UK; Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK; Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: Sheila.lumley@nhs.net.
² Microbiology Department, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Mandeville Road, Bucks HP21 8AL, UK.
³ Paediatrics Department, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Mandeville Road, Bucks HP21 8AL, UK.
⁴ Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK; Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.

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Keywords: Biofire FilmArray; Cell count; Cerebrospinal fluid; Encephalitis; Meningitis; PCR; Pleocytosis.

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