Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Reply: PCR assay for pathogen detection in ventriculostomy-related meningitis in neurosurgery patients: unanswered questions?

  • Correspondence
  • Published:
Infection Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Russel CD, McLean AL. PCR assay for pathogen-detection in ventriculostomy-related meningitis in neurosurgery patients: unanswered questions?

  2. Rath PM, Schoch B, Adamzik M, Steinmann E, Buer J, Steinmann J. Value of multiplex PCR using cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnosis of ventriculostomy-related meningitis in neurosurgery patients. Infection. 2014;42:621–7.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Beer R, Lackner P, Pfausler B, Schmutzhard E. Nosocomial ventriculitis and meningitis in neurocritical care patients. J Neurol. 2008;255:1617–24.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Schoch B, Regel JP, Wichert M, Gasser T, Volbracht L, Stolke D. Analysis of intrathecal interleukin-6 as a potential predictive factor for vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery. 2007;60:828–36.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Conflict of interest

P.-M. Rath and J. Steinmann have been on the speaker’s bureau for Roche Diagnostics Germany. The other authors have no conflict of interest.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Peter-Michael Rath, Jan Buer & Joerg Steinmann

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Stiftungsklinikum Mittelrhein, Koblenz, Germany

    Beate Schoch

  3. Department for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

    Michael Adamzik

  4. Division of Experimental Virology, Twincore, Center for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, A Joint Venture Between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

    Eike Steinmann

Authors
  1. Peter-Michael Rath
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Beate Schoch
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Michael Adamzik
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Eike Steinmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Jan Buer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Joerg Steinmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Joerg Steinmann.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Rath, PM., Schoch, B., Adamzik, M. et al. Reply: PCR assay for pathogen detection in ventriculostomy-related meningitis in neurosurgery patients: unanswered questions?. Infection 43, 251–252 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-015-0725-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-015-0725-6

Keywords

Search

Navigation