PCR Improves Diagnostic Yield from Lung Aspiration in Malawian Children with Radiologically Confirmed Pneumonia

• Enitan D. Carrol ,

  * E-mail: edcarrol@liv.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Institute of Child Health, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Limangeni A. Mankhambo,

  Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Paediatrics, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Malcolm Guiver,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency, Health Protection Agency North West, Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Daniel L. Banda,

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• The IPD Study Group ,

  ¶Membership of the IPD Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Brigitte Denis,

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Winifred Dove,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Liverpool, Duncan Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Graham Jeffers,

  Affiliation Department of Women's and Children's Health, The University of Liverpool, Institute of Child Health, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Elizabeth M. Molyneux,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Malcolm E. Molyneux,

  Affiliation Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

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• C. Anthony Hart †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Liverpool, Duncan Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Stephen M. Graham

  Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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