Low-stringency single specific primer PCR for identification of Leptospira

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-135

  Assunção Oliveira, Marluce A ^a   Caballero, Otávia L ^b   Vago, Annamaria R ^a   Harskeerl, Rudy A ^c   Romanha, Álvaro J ^d   Pena, Sérgio D J ^a   Simpson, Andrew J G ^b   Koury, Matilde Cota ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^c ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI; LEPTOSPIRA MEYERI; LEPTOSPIRA SANTAROSAI; LEPTOSPIRA WEILII; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037322241     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.04923-0     Document Type: Article

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