Simple duplex fecal PCR assay that allows identification of false-negative results in Helicobacter sp.-infected mice

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 528-532

  Bourgade, Franck ^a   Montagutelli, Xavier ^a   Bigbee, Cassie ^b   Weiss, April ^b   Rigottier Gois, Lionel ^c   Conti, Claudio J ^b   Benavides, Fernando ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA EXTRACTION; DUPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FECES; HELICOBACTER; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 9344263477     PISSN: 15320820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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