Two-stage PCR assay for detection of human brucellosis in endemic areas

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kamal, Ibrahim Hassan ^a,b   Al Gashgari, Basim ^a   Moselhy, Said Salama ^a,b   Kumosani, Taha Abdullah ^a   Abulnaja, Khalid Omar ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BCSP31 GENE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLA SUIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RURAL AREA; SAUDI ARABIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875201618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-145     Document Type: Article

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