Comparative evaluation of conventional and real-time PCR assays for detecting bacteroides fragilis in clinical samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1593-1595

  Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^a   Mela, Victoria ^a,c   Houhoula, Dimitra P ^a   Pantazatou, Angeliki ^c   Petrikkos, Georgios L ^b   Tsakris, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLOOD CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GOLD STANDARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FECES; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876767207     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00449-13     Document Type: Article

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