Evaluation of the diagnostic efficacy of PCR for Ureaplasma urealyticum infection in Indian adults with symptoms of genital discharge

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-58

  Dhawan, Benu ^a   Gupta, Vikas ^a   Khanna, Neena ^a   Singh, Manjula ^a   Chaudhry, Rama ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAQ POLYMERASE; UREASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFERTILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA SMEAR;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 33644540208     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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