Prevalence of circulating Treponema pallidum DNA and RNA in blood donors with confirmed-positive syphilis tests

Transfusion

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 94-99

  Orton, Sharyn L ^a,b   Liu, Hsi ^a,b   Dodd, Roger Y ^a,b   Williams, Alan E ^a,b  

^a HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE ALPHA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD DONORS; DNA POLYMERASE III; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0036372450     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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