Indirect immunofluorescence and real time PCR for detection of Simkania negevensis infection in Danish adults with persistent cough and in healthy controls

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 251-255

  Johnsen, Stine ^a   Birkebæk, Niels ^a   Andersen, Paul Lehm ^a   Andersen, Christian Emil ^a   Jensen, Jørgen Skov ^b   Østergaard, Lars ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGING; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD DONOR; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUGHING; DENMARK; DNA DETERMINATION; HEP 2 CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROPREVALENCE; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS;

EID: 17444393610     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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