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(2) Patients with a positive polymerase chain reaction but a negative amniotic fluid culture are at risk for adverse outcomes.
(2) Among the 43 patients with a positive polymerase chain reaction for U urealyticum, amniotic fluid culture was negative in 42% (18/43).
To report positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the vitreous and epididymal fluid in a patient of choroidal tuberculoma and epididymitis.
Obtaining positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) controls for human papillomavirus (HPV) diagnostic tests has been difficult because of prevalence variation in different geographic regions of each high-risk viral type.
(5) No significant differences in perinatal outcome were observed between patients with a negative culture but a positive polymerase chain reaction and those with a positive amniotic fluid culture.
(4) Patients with a positive polymerase chain reaction for U urealyticum but a negative amniotic fluid culture had a higher rate of significant neonatal morbidity than did those with both a negative culture and a negative polymerase chain reaction (P <.05).
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Rooms vacated by patients that had a MRSA-positive polymerase chain reaction or culture during the current hospitalization and at least a 2-day stay were studied.
In addition to reporting the vaccine efficacy against culture- or serologically confirmed influenza illness, Ohmit et al. (21) also reported the efficacy of live and inactivated vaccine against culture-positive, polymerase chain reaction positive, culture- or polymerase chain reaction positive, and serologically positive infection and illness.
After the Chlamydia Rapid Test there was enough urine left from the FirstBurst sample to determine organism load in 80/90 men positive with polymerase chain reaction at site 2. We analysed the DNA extracted from these urine specimens with quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay with a primer set that amplifies a highly conserved sequence of the 7.5-kb cryptic plasmid of C trachomatis.
Culture was positive and polymerase chain reaction/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry negative in 13 cases, and both were negative in 384 cases, giving polymerase chain reaction/electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry a sensitivity of 81%, specificity of 69%, and negative predictive value of 97% at 6 hours from sample acquisition.
All of these studies included adult laboratory-confirmed dengue patients i.e., either positive dengue polymerase chain reaction (PCR 24 or non-structural protein 1 (NS1) antigen tests based on a single acute sample25,26.
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