Real-time multiplex PCR assay for detection of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

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Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-44

  Matero, Pirjo ^b,c   Pasanen, Tanja ^b   Laukkanen, Riikka ^b   Tissari, Päivi ^b   Tarkka, Eveliina ^b   Vaara, Martti ^b   Skurnik, Mikael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Centre of Military Medicine   (Finland)

Author keywords

Multiplex; Pla; Real time PCR; Wzz; Yersinia pestis; Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; Ypo2088

Indexed keywords

METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WZZ GENE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTERRORISM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLAGUE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS INFECTIONS;

EID: 58649118669     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2008.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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