Detection and biovar discrimination of Ureaplasma urealyticum in Indian patients with genital tract infections

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-97

  Gupta, Vikas ^a   Dhawan, Benu ^a   Khanna, Neena ^a   Agarwal, Nutan ^a   Bhattacharya, Sambit Nath ^b   Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla ^a   Chaudhry, Rama ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UCMS AND GTB HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Biovars; Genital tract infection; Multiple banded antigen gene; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UREAPLASMA INFECTIONS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UREASE;

EID: 36849000327     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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