Choosing highly specific primers for the polymerase chain reaction using the octomer frequency disparity method: Application to Chlamydia trachomatis

Gene

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 97-101

  Chenal, Viviane ^a   Souque, Philippe ^a   Markovits, Andrea ^a,b   Griffais, Rémy ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b National Institute of Hygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

DNA polymerase; Human genome; Nested polymerase chain reaction; Nonradioactive probe; Octomer frequency disparity method; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME; DATA BASE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0030591793     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00226-0     Document Type: Article

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