Kym Lowry

Development and validation of a real-time polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Haycocknema perplexum.

dilution (Ct value 39.6) for SSU-PCR, making the latter a more sensitive assay for detecting lower concentrations of organism in the patient biopsy. The sensitivity of fresh frozen samples was superior to FFPE samples. All but one sample was negative following treatment. Feasibil...