Relevance of nucleic acid amplification techniques for diagnosis of respiratory tract infections in the clinical laboratory

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 242-256

  Ieven, Margareta ^a   Goossens, Herman ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FUNGI; LEGIONELLA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; RHINOVIRUS;

EID: 0030908033     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.2.242-256.1997     Document Type: Review

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