Prospective evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for detection of group B streptococci in vaginal swabs from pregnant women

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 355-357

  Reglier Poupet H ^a   Quesne, G ^a   Le Theo E ^a   Dommergues, M ^a   Berche, P ^a   Trieu Cuot, P ^b   Poyart, C ^a,b,c  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMNION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VAGINA; VAGINA SECRETION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VAGINA;

EID: 21244484562     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-005-1330-x     Document Type: Article

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