Specific and sensitive detection of Trichomonas tenax by the polymerase chain reaction

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 193-197

  Kikuta, N ^a   Yamamoto, A ^a   Fukura, K ^a   Goto, N ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; RNA;

18S RRNA; DENTAL PLAQUES; DETECTION LIMITS; GENOMIC DNA; HUMAN LEUKOCYTES; REACTION MIXTURE; REACTION PROTOCOLS; RRNA GENES; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SPECIFIC DETECTION;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOOTH PLAQUE; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONIASIS;

FUNGI; PROTISTA; TRICHOMONAS TENAX; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0030969760     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1997.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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