Comparison of two PCR systems for the rapid detection of Leptospira spp. from kidney tissue
2011
Mayer-Scholl, A. | Draeger, A. | Luge, E. | Ulrich, Rainer | Nöckler, K.
In this study we compared two routine PCR systems for the detection of Leptospira spp. and assessed their performance when directly applied to kidney samples from small mammals. Although the kappa value of 0.9 indicated a high level of agreement between the tests, the outer membrane lipoprotein gene lipl32 based PCR was more robust and showed a higher number of positive kidney samples
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Publisher Springer
ISSN 0343-8651 | 1432-0991This bibliographic record has been provided by German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment