Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence typing using non-cultured clinical specimens

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-55

  Whiley, David M ^a,b   Goire, Namraj ^a,b   Ray, E Sanghamitra ^c   Limnios, Athena ^c   Lambert, Stephen B ^a,b   Nissen, Michael D ^a,b,d   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,d   Tapsall, John W ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Pathology Queensland Central   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN B;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE MULTI ANTIGEN SEQUENCE TYPING SYSTEM; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEISSERIA POLYSACCHAREAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; THROAT CULTURE; URETHRA; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; VAGINA;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CERVIX UTERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETHRA; URINE;

EID: 77449149699     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.037689     Document Type: Article

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