Clinical Microbiology Department, Hospital La Paz, Paseo de La Castellana 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain.
Clinical Microbiology Department, Hospital La Paz, Paseo de La Castellana 261, 28046 Madrid, Spain.
J Infect. 2019 Sep;79(3):277-287. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 15.
The FilmArray® meningitis/encephalitis panel detects the 14 most frequent pathogens causing meningitis and/or encephalitis. The cases of FilmArray´s false negative in bacterial meningitis are rarely described in the literature. We are reporting a case of a false negative FilmArray® result for N. meningitidis and how we managed to overcome this situation.
FilmArray® 脑膜炎/脑炎检测 panel 可检测导致脑膜炎和/或脑炎的 14 种最常见病原体。文献中很少有关于 FilmArray 在细菌性脑膜炎中出现假阴性的报道。我们报告了 1 例脑膜炎奈瑟菌的 FilmArray® 假阴性结果,以及我们如何克服这一情况。