Real-time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction assays for quantitative detection and differentiation of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Ureaplasma parvum

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 373-378

  Cao, Xuan ^a   Wang, Yefu ^a   Hu, Xingwen ^b   Qing, Hong ^c   Wang, Hanhua ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital   (China)

^c Technol Ctr Hubei Entry Exit I   (China)

Author keywords

Real time TaqMan PCR; Standard curve; TaqMan probe; Ureaplasma parvum; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAQ POLYMERASE; TIME FACTORS; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33947668470     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.09.006     Document Type: Article

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