Application of in situ PCR to diagnose pneumonia in medico-legal autopsy cases

Legal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 127-133

  Nakamura, Masami ^a   Honda, Katsuya ^a   Tun, Zaw ^a   Ogura, Yoshiaki ^a   Matoba, Ryoji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

In situ polymerase chain reaction; Medico legal autopsy; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0034853841     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(01)00019-0     Document Type: Article

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