False-positive PCR detection of Tropheryma whipplei in cerebrospinal fluid and biopsy samples from a child with chronic lymphocytic meningitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3783-3784

  Goyo, Daniel ^a   Camacho, Ana ^a   Gómez, Carmen ^a   De Las Heras, Rogelio Simón ^a   Otero, Joaquín R ^a   Chaves, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; RNA 16S;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHOCYTIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ADOLESCENT; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUODENUM; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHERYMA;

TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 70449625247     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00927-09     Document Type: Article

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