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Rapid diagnosis of enterovirus infection by a new one-step reverse transcription-PCR assay
H H Kessler1, B Santner, H Rabenau
1Institute of Hygiene, KF-University Graz, Austria. harald.kessler@kfunigraz.ac.at
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
The AMPLICOR Enterovirus Test was evaluated with 103 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens. Twenty-seven CSF specimens were culture positive. With the AMPLICOR test, enterovirus RNA was detected in 34 specimens. Compared with culture, the AMPLICOR test gave a sensitivity of 96.3% and a specificity of 100%. The sensitivity of culture was 79.4% in comparison with the AMPLICOR test.