DNA hybridization test: Rapid diagnostic tool for excluding bacterial vaginosis in pregnant women with symptoms suggestive of infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3057-3059

  Witt, Armin ^a   Petricevic, Ljubomir ^a   Kaufmann, Ulrike ^a   Gregor, Hubertus ^a   Kiss, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA SMEAR; VAGINITIS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VAGINA; VAGINAL SMEARS; VAGINOSIS, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0036701635     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3057-3059.2002     Document Type: Article

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