Rapid and specific detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using fluorogenic probes and real-time PCR

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 375-383

  Kraus, Günter ^a   Cleary, Timothy ^a   Miller, Nancimae ^a   Seivright, Rachel ^a   Young, Andrea K ^a   Spruill, Gina ^a   Hnatyszyn, H James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Fluorogenic probes; Mycobacterium; Real time PCR; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL LYSATE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 0035720298     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.2001.0385     Document Type: Article

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