Detection of Simkania negevensis by culture, PCR, and serology in respiratory tract infection in Cornwall, UK

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 331-333

  Friedman, M G ^a   Kahane, S ^a   Dvoskin, B ^a   Hartley, J W ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIALES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 33644776043     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.025601     Document Type: Article

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