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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2018

The Repetitive Element RLEP Is a Highly Specific Target for Detection of Mycobacterium leprae.

S Braet, K Vandelannoote, C J Meehan, A N Brum Fontes, E Hasker, P S Rosa, N Lucena-Silva, L Rigouts, P N Suffys, B C De Jong

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Challenges and advances in serological and molecular tests to aid leprosy diagnosis.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2023
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  6. Qua vadis leprosy?The Indian journal of medical research · 2023
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  10. Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020
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  11. Genomic Characterization ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

S BraetDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium sbraet@itg.be.
K VandelannooteDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
C J MeehanDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0724-8343
A N Brum FontesOswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
E HaskerDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
P S RosaInstituto Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru, Brazil.
N Lucena-SilvaInstitute Aggeu Magalhães, Recife, Brazil.
L RigoutsDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
P N SuffysOswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
B C De JongDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.

Funding

European Research Council 311725
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Molecular Diagnostic TechniquesDNA, BacterialFalse Positive ReactionsHumansLeprosyMycobacterium lepraeReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidSensitivity and SpecificitySequence Analysis, DNADNA, BacterialdiagnosisleprosyRLEP qPCRspecificity

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PMID29305545
PMCPMC5824061

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