JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, cilt.13, sa.11, ss.978-983, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
Introduction: In addition to antibiotic treatment, slow-growing and non-cultivable bacteria can lead to false-negative results for sterile body site infections. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of 16S rRNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for such infections.