False-negative results using Neisseria gonorrhoeae porA pseudogene PCR - a clinical gonococcal isolate with an N. meningitidis porA sequence, Australia, March 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Whiley, D M ^a,b   Limnios, A ^c   Moon, N J ^d   Gehrig, N ^d   Goire, N ^a,b   Hogan, T ^c   Lam, A ^c   Jacob, K ^a,b   Lambert, S B ^a,b   Nissen, M D ^a,b,d   Sloots, T P ^a,b,d  

^a LADY CILENTO CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORA PSEUDOGENE; PSEUDOGENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THROAT CULTURE; URINALYSIS;

EID: 79957928816     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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