Development and application of real-time PCR assay for quantification of Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4231-4237

  Rondini, S ^a   Mensah Quainoo, E ^d   Troll, H ^b   Bodmer, T ^c   Pluschke, G ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SOLVIAS AG   (Switzerland)

^c Institute for Infectious Diseases   (Switzerland)

^d GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BURULI ULCER; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN ULCER; TISSUE INJURY;

CHILD; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0042921303     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4231-4237.2003     Document Type: Article

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