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SUBMITTER: Palacios G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2725825 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palacios Gustavo G Quan Phenix-lan PL Jabado Omar J OJ Conlan Sean S Hirschberg David L DL Liu Yang Y Zhai Junhui J Renwick Neil N Hui Jeffrey J Hegyi Hedi H Grolla Allen A Strong James E JE Towner Jonathan S JS Geisbert Thomas W TW Jahrling Peter B PB Büchen-Osmond Cornelia C Ellerbrok Heinz H Sanchez-Seco Maria Paz MP Lussier Yves Y Formenty Pierre P Nichol M Stuart T MS Feldmann Heinz H Briese Thomas T Lipkin W Ian WI
Emerging infectious diseases 20070101 1
To facilitate rapid, unbiased, differential diagnosis of infectious diseases, we designed GreeneChipPm, a panmicrobial microarray comprising 29,455 sixty-mer oligonucleotide probes for vertebrate viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Methods for nucleic acid preparation, random primed PCR amplification, and labeling were optimized to allow the sensitivity required for application with nucleic acid extracted from clinical materials and cultured isolates. Analysis of nasopharyngeal aspirates, b ...[more]