'Real-time' PCR-based detection of Coxiella burnetii using conventional techniques

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-136

  Frangoulidis, Dimitrios ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^a   Kahlhofer, Claudia ^a   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^a  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Deployable method; Improvement; PCR detection; Real time

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA MALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; Q FEVER; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855655485     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2011.00900.x     Document Type: Article

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