Analysis of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strains revealing potential for false-negative real-time PCR results

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 331-333

  Cassiday, Pamela K ^a,c   Pawloski, Lucia C ^a   Tiwari, Tejpratap ^b   Sanden, Gary N ^a   Wilkins, Patricia P ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DIPHTHERIA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; TOX GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 38149135013     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01251-07     Document Type: Article

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