Rapid detection of group B streptococcus and Escherichia coli in amniotic fluid using real-time fluorescent PCR

Infectious Disease in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 109-114

  Straka, Michele ^a   Dela Cruz, Wifred ^a   Blackmon, Camille ^a   Johnson, Oswald ^a   Stassen, Sara ^a   Streitman, David ^a   Golden, Stephen ^a   Stamilio, David ^b  

^a DAVID GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

E. Coli; GBS; Real time Fluorescent PCR

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CFB GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PROBE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UIDA GENE;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PENNSYLVANIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 11844260080     PISSN: 10647449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10647440400020679     Document Type: Article

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