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Bacteriology

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

Max Chernesky, Santina Castriciano, Dan Jang, Marek Smieja
Max Chernesky
McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada
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Santina Castriciano
McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada
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Dan Jang
McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada
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Marek Smieja
McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Father Sean O'Sullivan Research Centre, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 4A6, Canada
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DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.1084-1086.2006
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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.

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Use of Flocked Swabs and a Universal Transport Medium To Enhance Molecular Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Max Chernesky, Santina Castriciano, Dan Jang, Marek Smieja
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Mar 2006, 44 (3) 1084-1086; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.1084-1086.2006

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Use of Flocked Swabs and a Universal Transport Medium To Enhance Molecular Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Max Chernesky, Santina Castriciano, Dan Jang, Marek Smieja
Journal of Clinical Microbiology Mar 2006, 44 (3) 1084-1086; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.1084-1086.2006
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KEYWORDS

bacteriological techniques
Chlamydia trachomatis
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques

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