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Quantitative detection of respiratory Chlamydia pneumoniae infection by real-time PCR
Yvonne Kuoppa1, Jens Boman, Lena Scott
1Department of Virology, University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden. Yvonne.Kuoppa@climi.umu.se
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|May 31, 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.