Evaluation of a digital microfluidic real-time PCR platform to detect DNA of Candida albicans in blood

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2237-2245

  Schell, W A ^a   Johnson, M D ^a   Alexander, B D ^a   Perfect, J R ^a   Smith, P B ^a   Benjamin, D K ^a   Mitchell, T G ^a   Benton, J L ^b   Poore, M ^b   Rouse, J L ^b   Boles, D J ^b   Pamula, V K ^b   Eckhardt, A E ^b   Pollack, M G ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Advanced Liquid Logic Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; DNA DETERMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDEMIA; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFLUIDICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84866356215     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-012-1561-6     Document Type: Article

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