Enhancing gonococcal antimicrobial resistance surveillance: A real-time PCR assay for detection of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae by use of noncultured clinical samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 513-518

  Goire, Namraj ^a,b   Freeman, Kevin ^c   Tapsall, John W ^d   Lambert, Stephen B ^a,b   Nissen, Michael D ^a,b,e   Sloots, Theo P ^a,b,e   Whiley, David M ^a,b  

^a Royal Children's Hospital and Health Service District   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Pathology Queensland Central   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PENICILLINASE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 79951492621     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02024-10     Document Type: Article

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