Clinical utility of a nested nucleic acid amplification format in comparison to viral culture for the diagnosis of mucosal herpes simplex infection in a genitourinary medicine setting

BACKGROUND: Nested nucleic acid amplification tests are often thought too sensitive or prone to generatingfalse positive results for routine use. The current study investigated the specificity and clinicalutility of a routine multiplex nested assay for mucosal herpetic infections. METHODS: Ninety pa...

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Autores principales: Coyle, Peter V, O'Neill, Hugh J, McCaughey, Conall, Wyatt, Dorothy E, McBride, Michael O
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11591221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-1-11

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