Cloning and development of synthetic internal amplification control for Bacillus anthracis real-time polymerase chain reaction assays

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 471-475

  Sohni, Youvraj ^a   Kanjilal, Sagarika ^a,b,c   Kapur, Vivek ^a,b,c  

^a ANDX Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

B. anthracis; Internal amplification control; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE PROBE; GENE VECTOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47049092435     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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