Use of sodC versus ctrA for real-time polymerase chain reaction-based detection of Neisseria meningitidis in sterile body fluids

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 246-247

  Higa, Fábio Takenori ^a   Fukasawa, Lucila Okuyama ^a   Gonçalves, Maria Gisele ^a   Salgado, Maristela Marques ^a   de Lemos, Ana Paula Silva ^a   Harrison, Lee H ^b   de Oliveira, Priscilla Lima ^a   da Silva, Carla Naufal ^a   Sacchi, Claudio Tavares ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Meningitis; N. meningitidis diagnostics; SodC based RT PCR

Indexed keywords

NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 84875469480     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108022013020     Document Type: Article

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