Quantitative detection of Borrelia burgdorferi with a microtiter-based competitive polymerase chain reaction assay

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 185-193

  Germer, Jeff ^a   Ryckmann, Brent ^a   Moro, Manuel ^a   Hofmeister, Erik ^a   Barthold, Steven W ^b   Bockenstedt, Linda ^c   Persing, David H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Borrelia burgdorferi; Lyme disease; Quantitative competitive PCR

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032744391     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1084-8592(99)80022-8     Document Type: Article

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