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

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    C. D. Russell

  2. Academic Division of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK

    A. Lawson McLean

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Russell, C.D., Lawson McLean, A. PCR assay for pathogen detection in ventriculostomy-related meningitis in neurosurgery patients: unanswered questions?. Infection 43, 249–250 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-015-0723-8

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