Prevalence of corynebacterial 16S rRNA sequences in patients with bacterial and 'nonbacterial' prostatitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1863-1870

  Tanner, Michael A ^a,b   Shoskes, Daniel ^c   Shahed, Asha ^c   Pace, Norman R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAIROS Scientific Inc   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032953460     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1863-1870.1999     Document Type: Article

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