Carpegen® real-time polymerase chain reaction vs. anaerobic culture for periodontal pathogen identification

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 341-346

  Verner, C ^a   Lemaitre, P ^a   Daniel, A ^a   Giumelli, B ^a   Lakhssassi, N ^b   Sixou, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Anaerobic bacterial culture; Fusobacterium nucleatum; Microbiological diagnosis; Periodontopathogens; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Prevotella intermedia; Probe detection; Real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MERIDOL; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTEROIDES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTEROIDES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HUMANS; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 33750326858     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: 1399302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2006.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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