Quantitative Detection of Respiratory Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection by Real-Time PCR
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- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (6) , 2273-2274
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.6.2273-2274.2002
Abstract
Real-time PCR was evaluated as a quantitative diagnostic method for Chlamydia pneumoniae infection using different respiratory samples. Real-time PCR had efficiency equal to or better than that of nested touchdown PCR. This study confirmed sputum as the best sampling material to detect an ongoing C. pneumoniae infection.Keywords
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