Ultrasound-enhanced latex immunoagglutination and PCR as complementary methods for non-culture-based confirmation of meningococcal disease

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1797-1801

  Gray, Stephen J ^a   Sobanski, Michael A ^b   Kaczmarski, Edward B ^a   Guiver, Malcolm ^a   Marsh, W John ^a   Borrow, Raymond ^a   Barnes, Rosemary A ^c   Coakley, W Terence ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 0032952393     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1797-1801.1999     Document Type: Article

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