Culture-Independent Identification of Pathogenic Bacteria and Polymicrobial Infections in the Genitourinary Tract of Renal Transplant Recipients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5500-5510

  Domann, Eugen ^a   Hong, George ^b   Imirzalioglu, Can ^a   Turschner, Simon ^a   Kühle, Johannes ^a   Watzel, Corinna ^a   Hain, Torsten ^a   Hossain, Hamid ^a   Chakraborty, Trinad ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TRANSGENOMIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANAEROCOCCUS LACTOLYTICUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIALISTER INVISUS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LEPTOTRICHIA AMNIONII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA BUCCALIS; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ANAEROCOCCUS; ANAEROCOCCUS LACTOLYTICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; DIALISTER INVISUS; FUSOBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS INERS; LEPTOTRICHIA; LEPTOTRICHIA AMNIONII; PREVOTELLA; PREVOTELLA BUCCALIS; PREVOTELLA RUMINICOLA; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 0346849591     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5500-5510.2003     Document Type: Article

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