Broad-spectrum bacterial rDNA polymerase chain reaction assay for detecting amniotic fluid infection among women in premature labor

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1228-1232

  Hitti, Jane ^a,b,d   Riley, Donald E ^a   Krohn, Marijane A ^a,c   Hillier, Sharon L ^a,c   Agnew, Kathy J ^a   Krieger, John N ^a   Eschenbach, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; INTERLEUKIN 6; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; AMNIONITIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030914897     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513669     Document Type: Article

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