Assessment of a quantitative multiplex 5' nuclease real-time PCR for spotted fever and typhus group rickettsioses and Orientia tsutsugamushi

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 292-293

  Prakash, J A J ^a   Reller, M E ^b   Barat, N ^b   Dumler, J S ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRUB TYPHUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TYPHUS;

ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; TYPHUS GROUP;

EID: 73049107739     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02242.x     Document Type: Article

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