Rapid diagnosis of typhoid fever by PCR assay using one pair of primers from flagellin gene of Salmonella typhi

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-237

  Massi, Muhammad Nasrum ^a   Shirakawa, Toshiro ^b   Gotoh, Akinobu ^a,b   Bishnu, Acharya ^a   Hatta, Mochammad ^c   Kawabata, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Blood culture; PCR; Salmonella typhi; Widal test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DILUTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLAGELLIN GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TYPHOID FEVER; WIDAL REACTION;

EID: 0142058496     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10156-003-0256-4     Document Type: Article

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