Multicenter external quality assessment program for PCR detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in clinical and environmental specimens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Eddyani, Miriam ^a   Lavender, Caroline ^b   De Rijk, Willem Bram ^a   Bomans, Pieter ^a   Fyfe, Janet ^b   De Jong, Bouke ^a   Portaels, Françoise ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; WORKLOAD; BURULI ULCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; STANDARDS;

BURULI ULCER; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84896766921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089407     Document Type: Article

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