Identification and molecular discrimination of toxigenic and nontoxigenic diphtheria Corynebacterium strains by combined real-time polymerase chain reaction assays

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-120

  Mancini, Fabiola ^a   Monaco, Monica ^a   Pataracchia, Marco ^a   von Hunolstein, Christina ^a   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a   Ciervo, Alessandra ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis; Corynebacterium ulcerans; DT tox gene; FRET real time PCR; RpoB gene; Toxigenic and nontoxigenic Corynebacterium strains

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH RESOLUTION MELTING ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84861199238     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.02.022     Document Type: Article

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