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A novel method of selective removal of human DNA improves PCR sensitivity for detection of Salmonella Typhi in blood samples

BACKGROUND: Enteric fever is a major public health problem, causing an estimated 21million new cases and 216,000 or more deaths every year. Current diagnosis of the disease is inadequate. Blood culture only identifies 45 to 70% of the cases and is time-consuming. Serological tests have very low sens...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Liqing, Pollard, Andrew J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22839649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-164