A diagnostic PCR assay for the detection of an Australian epidemic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Williams, Heidi L ^a   Turnbull, Lynne ^a,b   Thomas, Susan J ^a   Murphy, Anna ^c   Stinear, Tim ^a,d   Armstrong, David S ^a,c   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SPUTUM;

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

EID: 77954547678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-9-18     Document Type: Article

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