Evaluation of Pneumococcal Load in Blood by Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Young Children in the PERCH Study.

Among nonconfirmed PCR positives, higher load was not associated with having very severe pneumonia, hypoxemia, CXR+, or white blood cell count >15/mm 3 , but there was a nonsignificant trend for proportion of children who died to increase with increasing load ( Table 2 ).

also in 5,406 other papers