Novel wide-range quantitative nested real-time PCR assay for Mycobactenum tuberculosis DNA: Clinical application for diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1698-1707

  Takahashi, Teruyuki ^a,b   Tamura, Masato ^b   Asami, Yukihiro ^a   Kitamura, Eiko ^a   Saito, Kosuke ^a   Suzuki, Tsukasa ^a   Takahashi, Sachiko Nonaka ^b   Matsumoto, Koichi ^b   Sawada, Shigemasa ^a   Yokoyama, Eise ^b   Takasu, Toshiaki ^a,b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADULT; AGED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 43249122697     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02214-07     Document Type: Article

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