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Serologic Detection of Antibodies Targeting the Leukocidin LukAB Strongly Predicts Staphylococcus aureus in Children With Invasive Infection
(JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY, 2019-06)
Background. Staphylococcus aureus is among the most commonly identified causes of invasive bacterial infection in children; however, reliable results from cultures of sterile-site samples often cannot be obtained, which ...
Agreement Between Two Procalcitonin Assays in Hospitalized Children
(Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2019-09)
Introduction Agreement between available procalcitonin (PCT) assays is unclear. We sought to compare concordance between Roche and bioMerieux PCT assays using pediatric samples. Methods We evaluated 213 plasma samples from ...