Development of a multiplex-PCR method to identify Ureaplasma parvum and Ureaplasma urealyticum;Desarrollo de un método de PCR-múltiple para la identificación de Ureaplasma parvum y Ureaplasma urealyticum

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 138-142

  Fernandez Molina C ^a   Latino, M A ^b   Zamora Martinez Y ^a   Pellecchia, M ^b   Neve, V ^b   Llanes, R ^a   MacFarlane, R ^a   Balbo, L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b Box 10126   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Identification; Ureaplasma parvum; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 23S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

ADULT; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0142136621     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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