Performance of transcription-mediated amplification and ligase chain reaction assays for detection of chlamydial infection in urogenital samples obtained by invasive and noninvasive methods

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2666-2670

  Stary, Angelika ^a   Schuh, Elisabeth ^a   Kerschbaumer, Martina ^a   Götz, Birgit ^a   Lee, Helen ^b  

^a Outpatients' Ctr Diagn Infect V   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URETHRITIS; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0031855340     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2666-2670.1998     Document Type: Article

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