Multiple nucleotide substitutions in the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C ctrA gene cause false-negative detection by real-time PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3016-3018

  Cavrini, Francesca ^a   Liguori, Giovanna ^a   Andreoli, Arianna ^a   Sambri, Vittorio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOSTRUCTURES AND BIOSYSTEMS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MANNITOL; RIFAMPICIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CTRA BACTERIAL GENE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERPYREXIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYALGIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETECHIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STIFF NECK; BACTEREMIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS, SEROGROUP C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP C;

EID: 77955462272     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00103-10     Document Type: Article

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