Clinical evaluation of a type III secretion system real-time PCR assay for diagnosing melioidosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3028-3030

  Meumann, Ella M ^a   Novak, Ryan T ^b   Gal, Daniel ^a   Kaestli, Mirjam E ^a   Mayo, Mark ^a   Hanson, Joshua P ^c   Spencer, Emma ^c   Glass, Mindy B ^b   Gee, Jay E ^b   Wilkins, Patricia P ^b   Currie, Bart J ^a,c  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANKLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MELIOIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE FLUID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTAL SWAB; SECRETION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPUTUM CULTURE; SYNOVIAL FLUID; THROAT CULTURE; URINE CULTURE; WOUND SWAB;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD; BODY FLUIDS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI;

EID: 33747192993     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00913-06     Document Type: Article

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