Comparison between quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification, real-time reverse transcriptase PCR, and real-time PCR for quantification of Leishmania parasites

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-78

  Van Der Meide, Wendy ^a   Guerra, Jorge ^b   Schoone, Gerard ^a   Farenhorst, Marit ^a   Coelho, Leíla ^b   Faber, William ^c   Peekel, Inge ^a   Schallig, Henk ^a  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b FUNDAÇÃO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL DR HEITOR VIEIRA DOURADO   (Brazil)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DILUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BRAZIL; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149025362     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01416-07     Document Type: Article

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