Evaluation and improvement of real-time PCR assays targeting lytA, ply, and psaA genes for detection of pneumococcal DNA

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2460-2466

  Carvalho, Maria Da Gloria S ^a   Tondella, Maria Lucia ^a   McCaustland, Karen ^a   Weidlich, Luciana ^c   McGee, Lesley ^b   Mayer, Leonard W ^a   Steigerwalt, Arnold ^a   Whaley, Melissa ^a   Facklam, Richard R ^a   Fields, Barry ^a   Carlone, George ^a   Ades, Edwin W ^a   Dagan, Ron ^d   Sampson, Jacquelyn S ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fundacao Estadual de Producao e Pesquisa em Saude   (Brazil)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYTA GENE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLY GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAA GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPE; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34548055900     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02498-06     Document Type: Article

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