Development and evaluation of real-time polymerase chain reaction assays on whole blood and paraffin-embedded tissues for rapid diagnosis of human brucellosis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-32

  Kattar, Mireille M ^a,b   Zalloua, Pierre A ^a   Araj, George F ^a,b   Samaha Kfoury, Joumana ^a,b   Shbaklo, Hadia ^c   Kanj, Souha S ^a   Khalife, Simon ^a,b   Deeb, Mary ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Chronic Care Center Hazmieh   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Archived tissue; Human brucellosis; PCR; Real time; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMP25 GENE; OMP31 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548561552     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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