Simple, rapid, and inexpensive detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistance mechanisms using heat-denatured isolates and SYBR green-based real-time PCR

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4211-4216

  Kugelman, Gayle ^a,b,c   Tapsall, John W ^d   Goire, Namraj ^a,b,c   Syrmis, Melanie W ^a,b,c   Limnios, Athena ^d   Lambert, Stephen B ^a,b,c   Nissen, Michael D ^a,b,c,e   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,c,e   Whiley, David M ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service District   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Pathology Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HEAT TREATMENT; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 70349349063     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00385-09     Document Type: Article

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