Non-detection of Chlamydia species in carotid atheroma using generic primers by nested PCR in a population with a high prevalence of Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Ong, Grace M ^a   Coyle, Peter V ^a   Barros D'Sa, Aires A B ^a   McCluggage, W Glenn ^a   Duprex, W Paul ^b   O'Neill, Hugh ^a   Wyatt, Dorothy E ^a   Bamford, Kathleen B ^c   O'Loughlin, Barney ^b   McCaughey, Conall ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 2942528621     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-1-12     Document Type: Article

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