Unexpected presence of mycoplasma probes on human microarrays

BioTechniques

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1013-1015

  Aldecoa Otalora, Estibaliz ^a   Langdon, William B ^a   Cunningham, Phil ^a   Arno, Matthew J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; LETTER; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA ARTHRITIDIS; MYCOPLASMA HYOSYNOVIAE; MYCOPLASMA INDIENSE; MYCOPLASMA ORALE; MYCOPLASMA SALIVARIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA CONTAMINATION; DNA PROBES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

MYCOPLASMA;

EID: 77953974482     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000113271     Document Type: Letter

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