Real-time PCR duplex assay for Rickettsia prowazekii and Borrelia recurrentis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 302-310

  Jiang, Ju ^a,b   Temenak, Joseph J ^a,c   Richards, Allen L ^a,d  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrelia recurrentis; Human body louse; Rickettsia prowazekii; Typhus

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FRANCISELLA PERSICA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LOUSE; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TYPHUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA CORIACEAE; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; EHRLICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MIRABILIS; NEORICKETTSIA RISTICII; NEORICKETTSIA SENNETSU; PEDICULUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CORPORIS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RICKETTSIALES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0038729125     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07380.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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