Identification of bacteria in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded heart valve tissue via 16S rRNA gene nucleotide sequencing

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2609-2611

  Imrit, Kavita ^a,b   Goldfischer, Michael ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Green, Jaime ^b   Levine, Jerome ^a   Lombardo, Joseph ^a   Hong, Tao ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GEMELLA HAEMOLYSANS; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; TISSUE FIXATION;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FORMALDEHYDE; GENES, RRNA; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE FIXATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746216114     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00572-06     Document Type: Article

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