Utility of Enterovirus PCR Testing of CSF

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Infectious Diseases| August 01 2000 Utility of Enterovirus PCR Testing of CSF AAP Grand Rounds (2000) 4 (2): 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.4-2-10 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Utility of Enterovirus PCR Testing of CSF. AAP Grand Rounds August 2000; 4 (2): 10–11. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.4-2-10 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All PublicationsAll JournalsAAP Grand RoundsPediatricsHospital PediatricsPediatrics In ReviewNeoReviewsAAP NewsAll AAP Sites Search Advanced Search Topics: cerebrospinal fluid, enterovirus, polymerase chain reaction Source: Ramers C, Billman G, Hartin M, et al. Impact of a diagnostic cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus polymerase chain reaction test on patient management. JAMA. 2000;283:2680–2685. Ramers et al retrospectively reviewed the records of patients for whom an enterovirus-specific (EV) PCR of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was performed at the Children’s Hospital, San Diego during 1998 in patients with suspected aseptic meningitis. The median age of the 276 patients tested was 5.5 months (range 0 to 201 months). Of the patients tested, 49.6% (137) had a positive result. The test was available 6 days per week June-December, 3 days per week January–May. Eighty-nine patients were discharged before their PCR result was available. Median PCR result turnaround time was longer (48 hours) for patients discharged before results were available than for patients who received the results before discharge (32 hrs, P<.001). Of the 187 results... You do not currently have access to this content.