Comparison of microscopy, culture and in-house PCR and NASBA assays for diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Russia

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Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-138

  Shipitsyna, Elena ^a   Guschin, Alexander ^b   Maximova, Anna ^c   Tseslyuk, Mariya ^b   Savicheva, Alevtina ^a   Sokolovsky, Evgenij ^c   Shipulin, German ^b   Domeika, Marius ^d   Unemo, Magnus ^e  

^a D O OTT RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICS   (Russian Federation)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Microscopy and culture diagnostics; NASBA; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; PCR; Russia

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX;

EID: 40449130135     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2008.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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