Diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis by a new multiplex peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridization method

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is one of most common vaginal infections. However, its diagnosis by classical methods reveals low specificity. Our goal was to evaluate the accuracy diagnosis of 150 vaginal samples with research gold standard methods and our Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) probes by Fluorescence...

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Main Authors: António Machado, Joana Castro, Tatiana Cereija, Carina Almeida, Nuno Cerca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015-02-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/780.pdf