Two-step PCR-based assay for identification of bacterial etiology of otitis media with effusion in infected Lebanese children

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1185-1188

  Matar, Ghassan M ^a   Sidani, Nada ^a   Fayad, Michel ^a   Hadi, Usamah ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; OTITIS MEDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031969735     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.5.1185-1188.1998     Document Type: Article

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