Detection of the 47-kilodalton membrane immunogen gene of Treponema pallidum in various tissue sources of patients with syphilis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-145

  Kouznetsov, Alexander Vasilevich ^a   Weisenseel, Peter ^a   Trommler, Paul ^a   Multhaup, Susanne ^a   Prinz, Joerg Christoph ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

PBMCs; Polymerase chain reaction; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 13444280090     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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