Detection of Neisseria Meningitidis in Clinical Samples by a Duplex Real-Time PCR Targeting the porA and ctrA Genes

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-145

  Whiley, David M ^a,b   Crisante, Michelle E ^c   Syrmis, Melanie W ^a,b   Mackay, Ian M ^a,b   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CTRA GENE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PORA GENE; REAL TIME DUPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 2042542044     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03260030     Document Type: Article

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