DiDiodato Giulio, Bradbury Nellie
Centre for Education & Research, Barrie, Canada.
Microbiology Laboratory, Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, Barrie, Canada.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 5;6(4):ofz119. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz119. eCollection 2019 Apr.
The Meningitis/Encephalitis Panel (MEP) is a sensitive and specific Food and Drug Administration-approved molecular diagnostic test for the 14 most common infectious etiologies of meningoencephalitis. Using a before-after controlled study design, MEP reduced length of hospital stay by 1.5 days, and this effect was mediated by the reduced time to final microbiology reporting.
脑膜炎/脑炎检测组合(MEP)是一项经美国食品药品监督管理局批准的、针对脑膜脑炎14种最常见感染病因的灵敏且特异的分子诊断检测。采用前后对照研究设计,MEP使住院时间缩短了1.5天,且这一效果是由最终微生物学报告时间的缩短所介导的。