Bacterial meningitis pathogens identified in clinical samples using a SERS DNA detection assay

Gracie, Kirsten and Lindsay, Diane and Graham, Duncan and Faulds, Karen (2015) Bacterial meningitis pathogens identified in clinical samples using a SERS DNA detection assay. Analytical Methods, 7 (4). pp. 1269-1272. ISSN 1759-9660 (https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ay00063g)

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Abstract

This communication reports the first demonstration of the detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis bacterial DNA extracted from anonymous patient CSF samples and assesses the applicability of a previously developed SERS based DNA detection assay as a platform for the detection of multiple meningitis pathogens from clinical samples.