Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis ocular infection in trachoma-endemic communities by rRNA amplification

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-94

  Yang, Jon L ^a   Hong, Kevin C ^a   Schachter, Julius ^a,b   Moncada, Jeanne ^b   Lekew, Takele ^c   House, Jenafir I ^a   Zhou, Zhaoxia ^a   Neuwelt, Melissa D ^a   Rutar, Tina ^a   Halfpenny, Colleen ^a   Shah, Neelima ^a   Whitcher, John P ^a   Lietman, Thomas M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ORBIS INTERNATIONAL   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRACHOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TRACHOMA;

EID: 58249088846     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2247     Document Type: Article

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