Pooling samples: The key to sensitive, specific and cost-effective genetic diagnosis of Chiamydia trachomatis in low-resource countries

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 140-143

  Shipitsyna, Elena ^a   Shalepo, Kira ^a   Savicheva, Alevtina ^a,b   Unemo, Magnus ^b,c   Domeika, Marius ^b  

^a D O OTT RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Diagnostics; NAAT; PCR; Pooling; Russia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE ENDOCERVIX;

CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 34047108634     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0196     Document Type: Article

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