Quantitative Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Erythema Migrans Skin Lesions Using Internally Controlled Duplex Real Time PCR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  O'Rourke, Maria ^a   Traweger, Andreas ^a,d   Lusa, Lara ^b   Stupica, Dasa ^c   Maraspin, Vera ^c   Barrett, P Noel ^a   Strle, Franc ^c   Livey, Ian ^a  

^a BAXTER BIOSCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; RNA 16S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO; BURNING SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FATIGUE; FEVER; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OSPA GENE; PRURITUS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RIGOR; RNA GENE; RNASEP GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN PAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN;

EID: 84877831723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063968     Document Type: Article

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