Reliable means of diagnosis and serovar determination of blood-borne Salmonella strains: Quick PCR amplification of unique genomic loci by novel primer sets

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2435-2441

  Nagarajan, Arvindhan Govindasamy ^a   Karnam, Guruswamy ^a   Lahiri, Amit ^a   Allam, Uday Sankar ^a   Chakravortty, Dipshikha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA DUBLIN; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE;

BACTEREMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYPHOID FEVER;

SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHI; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 68549092502     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00327-09     Document Type: Article

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