Reliability of nested PCR for detection of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in atheromas: Results from a multicenter study applying standardized protocols

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4428-4434

  Apfalter, Petra ^a   Assadian, Ojan ^a   Blasi, Francesco ^b   Boman, Jens ^c   Gaydos, Charlotte A ^d   Kundi, Michael ^a   Makristathis, Athanasios ^a   Nehr, Marion ^a   Rotter, Manfred L ^a   Hirsch, Alexander M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 18744394301     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.12.4428-4434.2002     Document Type: Article

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