Effects of decontamination, DNA extraction, and amplification procedures on the molecular diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1195-1198

  Affolabi, Dissou ^a   Sanoussi, N'Dira ^a   Vandelannoote, Koen ^b   Odoun, Mathieu ^a   Faïhun, Frank ^a   Sopoh, Ghislain ^c   Anagonou, Séverin ^a   Portaels, Françoise ^b   Eddyani, Miriam ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries   (Benin)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli   (Benin)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BURULI ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODIFIED BOOM METHOD; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMIAUTOMATED METHOD;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BURULI ULCER; DECONTAMINATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 84858599626     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05592-11     Document Type: Article

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