Evaluation of a specific nested PCR targeting domain III of the 23S rRNA gene of 'Tropheryma whippelii' and proposal of a classification system for its molecular variants

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 595-599

  Hinrikson, Hans Peter ^a   Dutly, Fabrizio ^a   Altwegg, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033950405     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.2.595-599.2000     Document Type: Article

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