Real Time Quantitative PCR Assay for Pneumocystis jirovecii Detection

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 651-

  Meliani, Leila ^a   Develoux, Michel ^b   Marteau Miltgen, Marie ^a   Magne, Denis ^a,b   Barbu, Veronique ^a   Poirot, Jean Louis ^a   Roux, Patricia ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FRANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

DNA PRIMERS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; PARIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 0346336115     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00670.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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