Development and validation of burkholderia pseudomallei-specific real-time pcr assays for clinical, environmental or forensic detection applications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Price, Erin P ^a,b   Dale, Julia L ^a   Cook, James M ^a   Sarovich, Derek S ^a,b   Seymour, Meagan L ^a   Ginther, Jennifer L ^a   Kaufman, Emily L ^a   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,c   Mayo, Mark ^b   Kaestli, Mirjam ^b   Glass, Mindy B ^d   Gee, Jay E ^d   Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn ^e   Warner, Jeffrey M ^f   Baker, Anthony ^f   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a   Tan, Patrick ^g   Tuanyok, Apichai ^a   Limmathurotsakul, Direk ^e   Peacock, Sharon J ^e,h   Currie, Bart J ^b   Wagner, David M ^a   Keim, Paul ^a,c   Pearson, Talima ^a   more..

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BUKDIFF ASSAY; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA OKLAHOMENSIS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TTS1 ASSAY; VALIDATION STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MELIOIDOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; BURKHOLDERIA THAILANDENSIS; BURKHOLDERIACEAE;

BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; MELIOIDOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862095063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037723     Document Type: Article

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