Simultaneous detection of viruses and Toxoplasma gondii in cerebrospinal fluid specimens by multiplex polymerase chain reaction-based reverse hybridization assay

New Microbiologica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-146

  Prete, Raffaele Del ^a   Taranto, Anna Maria Di ^b   Lipsi, Maria Rosaria ^b   Natalicchio, Maria Iole ^b   Antonetti, Raffaele ^b   Miragliotta, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Ospedali Riuniti di Foggia   (Italy)

Author keywords

CNS infection; Multiplex PCR assay; Reverse hybridization assay (RHA); Toxoplasma gondii; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; DNA VIRUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; TOXOPLASMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHILD; DNA VIRUSES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; TOXOPLASMA;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; SIMPLEXVIRUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 67649966606     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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