Point-of-care polymerase chain reaction (POC-PCR)
Pneumonia
PNEUMONIA
The Biofire FilmArray Pneumonia Panel plus (Biomérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France) is an automatic, closed, multiplex PCR, that includes all steps of molecular diagnostics in about 75 min, including sample preparation. The panel detects 18 bacterial pathogens, 9 viruses, and 7 antimicrobial resistance genes (see Results for typical colonising bacteria were reported semiquantitatively providing estimates to the nearest whole log as gene copies/ml ranging from 10