High-throughput multistrain polymerase chain reaction quantification of Chlamydia trachomatis from clinical and preclinical urogenital specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-123

  McGowin, Chris L ^a   Whitlock, Gregory C ^b   Pyles, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia muridarum; Chlamydia trachomatis; Diagnostic; Real time PCR; Sexually transmitted infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; GENTAMICIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEROTYPE; URINALYSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETHRA; URINE; VAGINA;

EID: 67349276627     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.01.032     Document Type: Article

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