Ireland: Meningitis/encephalitis

Detection of Neisseria meningitidis in a paediatric patient with septic arthritis using multiplexed diagnostic PCR targeting meningitis/encephalitis (ME)

O’Sullivan D, Linnane B, Mostyn A, Jonathan N, Lenihan M, O’Connell H, Dunne CP | 2018 | Annal of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 17:14.

Researchers demonstrate the use of a multiplexed diagnostic qPCR assay for the detection of 14 pathogens that can be found in cerebrospinal fluid. The authors used the assay to detect Neisseria meningitidis, which is a causative pathogen of primary meningococcal septic arthritis.