Use of Flocked Swabs and a Universal Transport Medium To Enhance Molecular Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Use of Flocked Swabs and a Universal Transport Medium To Enhance Molecular Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Published:2006-03 Issue:3 Volume:44 Page:1084-1086
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Chernesky Max¹,Castriciano Santina¹,Jang Dan¹,Smieja Marek¹

Affiliation:

1. McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada

Abstract

ABSTRACT The use of new flocked swabs, compared to kit swabs, enhanced the ability of three commercial nucleic acid amplification tests to detect low levels of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae nucleic acids when the organisms were diluted in a universal transport medium as mocked specimens.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.44.3.1084-1086.2006

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