An algorithm to detect Chlamydia trachomatis by polymerase chain reaction on specimens extracted for enzyme immunoassay

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 185-190

  Chui, Linda ^a   Kakulphimp, Jocelyne ^a   Detwiler, Brian ^a   Prasad, Errol ^a  

^a Provincial Public Health Laboratory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL LINE; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETHRA; URETHRAL DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES;

EID: 0032428611     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00088-1     Document Type: Article

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