Amplicon DNA Melting Analysis for the Simultaneous Detection of Brucella spp and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex. Potential Use in Rapid Differential Diagnosis between Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis and Focal Complications of Brucellosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sanjuan Jimenez, Rocio ^a   Colmenero, Juan D ^b   Bermúdez, Pilar ^b   Alonso, Antonio ^a   Morata, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCALATING AGENT; SYBR GREEN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLICON; AMPLICON DNA MELTING ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BCSP31 GENE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CFP31 GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IS6110 GENE; IS711 GENE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MELTING POINT; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMP2A GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENX3 REGX3 GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84874783569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058353     Document Type: Article

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