Detection and gram discrimination of bacterial pathogens from aqueous and vitreous humor using real-time PCR assays

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 873-881

  Bispo, Paulo José Martins ^a   de Melo, Gustavo Barreto ^a   Hofling Lima, Ana Luisa ^a   Pignatari, Antonio Carlos Campos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE INFECTION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRAM STAINING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VITREOUS BODY; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; CRYSTAL VIOLET; GRAM'S STAIN; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; PHENAZINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 79953272220     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5712     Document Type: Article

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