Clinical use of capillary PCR to diagnose Mycoplasma pneumonia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1382-1384

  Honda, Junichi ^a   Yano, Takafumi ^b   Kusaba, Mikako ^a   Yonemitsu, Junko ^a   Kitajima, Hiromoto ^a   Masuoka, Megumi ^a   Hamada, Kaori ^a   Oizumi, Kotaro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; THROAT CULTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0033998273     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.4.1382-1384.2000     Document Type: Article

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