Real-time quantitative PCR assay for the detection of Helicobacter pylori: No association with sudden infant death syndrome

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 202-206

  Loddenkötter, Brigitte ^a   Becker, Karsten ^a   Hohoff, Carsten ^a   Brinkmann, Bernd ^a   Bajanowski, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formalin fixed paraffin embedded; Helicobacter pylori infection; Immunohistochemistry; Real time PCR; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GASTRIC JUICE; GERMANY; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 21744438936     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0531-2     Document Type: Article

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