Development and evaluation of an ompA quantitative real-time PCR assay for Chlamydia trachomatis serovar determination

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2060-2065

  Stevens, Matthew P ^a,b,c   Twin, Jimmy ^a,b,c   Fairley, Christopher K ^b   Donovan, Basil ^d   Tan, Sarah E ^a,b,c   Yu, Jingxi ^a   Garland, Suzanne M ^a,b,c   Tabrizi, Sepehr N ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Reference Laboratory   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; EYE INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 77952946386     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02308-09     Document Type: Article

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