Analytic performance and contamination control methods of a ligase chain reaction DNA amplification assay for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in urogenital specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-76

  Hu, Hsiang Yun Y ^a   Burczak, John D ^a   Leckie, Gregor W ^a   Ray, Keith A ^a   Muldoon, Sharon ^a   Lee, Helen H ^b,c  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRA; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MALE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0029927598     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(95)00272-3     Document Type: Article

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