Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis by nucleic acid amplification testing: Our evaluation suggests that CDC-recommended approaches for confirmatory testing are ill-advised

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2512-2517

  Schachter, Julius ^a   Chow, Joan M ^b   Howard, Holly ^b   Bolan, Gail ^b   Moncada, Jeanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CYTOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; URINALYSIS; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URETHRA;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 33746211160     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02620-05     Document Type: Article

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