Comparison of DNA Amplification Methodsfor the Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in First-Void Urine from Asymptomatic Military Recruits

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 97-102

  Stary, Angelika ^a,d   Tomazic Allen, Susan ^b   Choueiri, Belinda ^a   Burczak, John ^b   Steyrer, Kurt ^c   Lee, Helen ^b  

^a Outpatients' Ctr Diagn Infect V   (Austria)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Outpatients' Centre for STD   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLDIER; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA LIGASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; URETHRA;

EID: 0030000452     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199603000-00002     Document Type: Review

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