Quantitative detection of Borrelia burgdorferi by real-time PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1958-1963

  Pahl, Andreas ^a   Kühlbrandt, Uta ^a   Brune, Kay ^a   Röllinghoff, Martin ^a   Gessner, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; RICKETTSIALES; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0344298887     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1958-1963.1999     Document Type: Article

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