This review provides a state-of-the-art description of the performance of Sanger cycle
sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene for routine identification of bacteria in the clinical microbiology …

Atomistic simulations of protein folding have the potential to be a great complement to
experimental studies, but have been severely limited by the time scales accessible with current …

… Cycling conditions on a GeneAmp PCR System 9700 (Applied Biosystems) were 3 min
denaturation at 94 C, followed by 35 cycles at 94 C for 30 s, 54 C for 30 s and 72 C for 30 s. A …

We describe the case of a patient with a chronic pulmonary infection due to a mycobacterium
tentatively identified as Mycobacterium flavescens, but finally shown to be Mycobacterium …

… The manufacturer’s protocol was followed for all stages of the saponification, methylation, …
Target DNA was diluted to 50 g/ml in sterile distilled water and applied to an Immobilon-S …

In a recent article, Gupta et al. [1] have proposed a revision of the taxonomy of mycobacteria
with the redistribution of 150 species of the genus Mycobacterium into five different genera; …

There are surely scientific, genetic or ecological arguments which show that differences
exist between the relapsing fever (RF) spirochaetes and the Lyme borreliosis (LB) group of …

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… HIV classification is used routinely by all medical laboratories performing genotyping
resistance testing to characterize patient’s strain, to detect reinfection and to analyse viral …

Objectives. We sought to test whether C-reactive protein (CRP) and seropositivity to any of
three infectious agents are associated with angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) and …