Detection of Tropheryma whipplei DNA in feces by PCR using a target capture method

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2466-2471

  Maibach, Romana C ^a   Dutly, Fabrizio ^a   Altwegg, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH SUCTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036306417     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.7.2466-2471.2002     Document Type: Article

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