Diagnostic assay for Rickettsia japonica

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1994-1997

  Hanaoka, Nozomu ^a   Matsutani, Minenosuke ^b   Kawabata, Hiroki ^a,e   Yamamoto, Seigo ^c   Fujita, Hiromi ^d   Sakata, Akiko ^a   Azuma, Yoshinao ^b   Ogawa, Motohiko ^a   Takano, Ai ^a,e   Watanabe, Haruo ^a,e   Kishimoto, Toshio ^a   Shirai, Mutsunori ^b   Kurane, Ichiro ^a   Ando, Shuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

^d Ohara General Hospital   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HEILONGJIANGENSIS; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 73949119011     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1512.090252     Document Type: Article

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