Evaluation of real-time and conventional PCR targeting complex 85 genes for detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA in skin biopsy samples from patients diagnosed with leprosy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3154-3159

  Martinez, Alejandra N ^a   Britto, Constança F P C ^a   Nery, José A C ^a   Sampaio, Elizabeth P ^a   Jardim, Márcia R ^a   Sarno, Euzenir N ^a   Moraes, Milton O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENE PRODUCT; SPACER DNA;

ANTIGEN 85 COMPLEX GENE; ANTIGEN 85A GENE; ANTIGEN 85B GENE; ANTIGEN 85C GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EVALUATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TAQ POLYMERASE;

BACILLI (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 33748779846     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02250-05     Document Type: Article

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