Use of the polymerase chain reaction to detect Legionella DNA in urine and serum samples from patients with pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 475-480

  Murdoch, David R ^a   Walford, Elisabeth J ^b   Jennings, Lance C ^b   Light, Gillian J ^b   Schousboe, Mona I ^b   Chereshsky, Annette Y ^b   Chambers, Stephen T ^b   Town, G Ian ^b  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0029830084     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.475     Document Type: Article

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