The etiologic diagnosis of infectious di
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Frédéric Lecouvet; Leonid Irenge; Bernard Vandercam; Adrien Nzeusseu; Sandrine H
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Objective Blood cultures and cultures of disc material are required to identify and treat bacterial agents responsible for septic spondylodiscitis, but these methods have limited sensitivities. We undertook this study to compare nonculture amplification‐based DNA analysis with conve