Swabs (dry or collected in universal transport medium) and semen can be used for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis using the cobas 4800 system

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART 2, 2013, Pages 217-222

  le Roy, Chloé ^a,b   Papaxanthos, Aline ^c   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^d   Mehats, Virginie ^a,b   Clerc, Maïthé ^a,b   Bébéar, Cécile ^a,b,c   de Barbeyrac, Bertille ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b Univ Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2   (France)

^c BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COBAS 4800 CT NG TEST; COBAS TAQMAN CT TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CERVIX UTERI; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; URINE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84872695456     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.048652-0     Document Type: Article

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