Getting the measure of syphilis: qPCR to better understand early infection

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 479-485

  Tipple, Craig ^a   Hanna, Mariam O F ^a   Hill, Samantha ^b   Daniel, Jessica ^b   Goldmeier, David ^b   McClure, Myra O ^a   Taylor, Graham P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TPP47 DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; ULCER;

ADULT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 80052946693     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2011.049494     Document Type: Article

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