Real-time PCR method for the detection of the gene encoding surface lipoprotein LipL32 of pathogenic Leptospira: Use in the laboratory diagnosis of the acute form of leptospirosis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 593-599

  Cermakova, Zuzana ^a,b   Kucerova, Petra ^a   Pliskova, Lenka ^a   Kubickova, Pavla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

^b Central Military Health Institute in Prague   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute leptospirosis; DNA; LipL32; MAT; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN LIPL32;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAPID TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880312305     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2013.795656     Document Type: Article

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