Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by real-time PCR using pan-mycobacterial primers and a pair of fluorescence resonance energy transfer probes specific for the M. tuberculosis complex

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1659-1661

  Drosten, Christian ^a   Panning, Marcus ^a   Kramme, Stefanie ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 0141727618     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.10.1659     Document Type: Article

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