Diagnosis of pelvic actinomycosis by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing and its clinical significance

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-118

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a   Fung, Ami M Y ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^b   Hon, Edmund ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HKU PASTEUR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES MEYERI; ACTINOMYCES ODONTOLYTICUS; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM GRANULOSUM;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALPINGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036092611     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00375-9     Document Type: Article

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