Volume 8, Number 2—February 2002
Research
Broad-Range Bacterial Detection and the Analysis of Unexplained Death and Critical Illness
Table 1
Case ID | Sex | Age (yrs) | Duration of antibiotic therapy before specimen obtained | Clinical syndrome(s)a | 16S rDNA PCR and sequencing results | Specimen | Outcome |
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XOR6 | M | 18 | 10 min | Neurologic | Neisseria meningitidis | CSF | Survived |
XOR34 | M | 13 | 3 days | Neurologic | N. meningitidis | CSF | Survived |
XCA73 | F | 19 | 1 dayb | Respiratory & neurologic | Streptococcus pneumoniae | CSF | Survived |
XEB44 | F | 10 | 3 days | Respiratory | S. pneumoniae | Pleural fluid | Survived |
XMN22 | M | 43 | 2 weeks | Respiratory | S. pneumoniae | Pleural fluid | Survived |
XOR63 | M | 29 | 1 month | Respiratory | Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | Bone marrow aspirate | Died (no autopsy) |
XOR56 | M | 11 | none | Multisystem | Staphylococcus epidermidis | Blood culture material | Survived |
XCT29 | F | 10 | 1 week | Cardiac | Bacillus sp., Halomonas sp., Enterococcus sp. | Blood culture material | Survived |
aThe primary clinical syndrome(s) during hospitalization.
bA second cerebrospinal (CSF) sample obtained 5 days later also contained S. pneumoniae rDNA.
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