Non-detection of Chlamydia species in carotid atheroma using generic primers by nested PCR in a population with a high prevalence of Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody

Grace M Ong,Peter V. Coyle,Aires Ab Barros DSa,W. Glenn McCluggage,W. Paul Duprex,Hugh J. O'Neill,D.E. Wyatt,Kathleen B. Bamford,Barney OLoughlin,Conall McCaughey

Non-detection of Chlamydia species in carotid atheroma using generic primers by nested PCR in a population with a high prevalence of Chlamydia pneumoniae antibody

2001

Grace M Ong
Peter V. Coyle
Aires Ab Barros DSa
W. Glenn McCluggage
W. Paul Duprex
Hugh J. O'Neill
D.E. Wyatt
Kathleen B. Bamford
Barney OLoughlin
Conall McCaughey

Background The association of Chlamydia pneumoniae with atherosclerosis is controversial. We investigated the presence of C. pneumoniae and other Chlamydia spp. in atheromatous carotid artery tissue.

Keywords:

Pathology
Virology
Atheroma
Serology
Chlamydophila pneumoniae
Nested polymerase chain reaction
Medical microbiology
Medicine
Population
Chlamydia
Carotid endarterectomy
Parasitology
Primer (molecular biology)
non detection
carotid atheroma

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