Diagnosis of Septicaemia by Detection of Microbial DNA in Blood in Severe Infections

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2008
The primary purpose is to improve and quicken the microbial diagnosis in severe infections, since only one third of the cases are documented by blood cultures and adequate anti-infective therapy in the 48 hours reduced mortality and morbidity. Our hypothesis is that detection of microbial DNA in blood by real time PCR may increase the number of cases diagnosed for bacteraemia or fungemia and shorten the time to positive results, which will provide information for an adequate anti-infectious therapy.
Epistemonikos ID: f87ef175888a5f804c8e9de4877ece78a7fefed1
First added on: May 05, 2024