Comparison of commercial DNA preparation kits for the detection of Brucellae in tissue using quantitative real-time PCR

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tomaso, Herbert ^a,b   Kattar, Mireille ^c   Eickhoff, Meike ^d   Wernery, Ulrich ^e   Al Dahouk, Sascha ^f   Straube, Eberhard ^g   Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Scholz, Holger C ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d Roche Molecular Systems   (Switzerland)

^e CENTRAL VETERINARY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United Arab Emirates)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA PURIFICATION; ELUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SECTION; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77950955503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-100     Document Type: Article

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