Detection and quantification of pathogenic bacteria and fungi using real-time polymerase chain reaction by cycling probe in patients with corneal ulcer

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 535-540

  Itahashi, Motoki ^a   Higaki, Shiro ^a   Fukuda, Masahiko ^a   Shimomura, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA ULCER; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CORNEAL ULCER; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952234602     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.66     Document Type: Article

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