Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia parkeri, and Rickettsia akari in skin biopsy specimens using a multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 635-642

  Denison, Amy M ^a   Amin, Bijal D ^c   Nicholson, William L ^b   Paddock, Christopher D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Real time PCR; Rickettsia; Skin biopsies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA AKARI; RICKETTSIA PARKERI; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIALPOX; RICKETTSIOSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; BIOPSY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RASH; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

BIOPSY; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; EXANTHEMA; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AKARI; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

EID: 84907403878     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu358     Document Type: Article

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