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Optimized PCR-based Detection of Mycoplasma
Published on: June 20, 2011
Comparison of two Mycoplasma genitalium real-time PCR detection methodologies
Jimmy Twin1, Nicole Taylor, Suzanne M Garland
1Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. jimmy.twin@mcri.edu.au
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 7, 2011
Abstract:
Established in-house quantitative PCR (qPCR) assays to detect the Mycoplasma genitalium adhesion protein (MgPa) and the 16S rRNA gene were found to be comparable for screening purposes, with a kappa value of 0.97 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.94 to 1.01) and no difference in bacterial load quantified (P = 0.4399).