Comparison of stool collection and storage on Whatman FTA Elute cards versus frozen stool for enteropathogen detection using the TaqMan Array Card PCR assay.

Comparison of stool collection and storage on Whatman FTA Elute cards versus frozen stool for enteropathogen detection using the TaqMan Array Card PCR assay.

The use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assays for pathogen detection in travelers' diarrhea (TD) field studies is limited by the on-site processing and storage requirements for fecal specimens. The objectives of this investigation were to i) characterize the pathogen distribution in deploye...

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Main Authors: Tahaniyat Lalani, Michele D Tisdale, Jie Liu, Indrani Mitra, Cliff Philip, Elizabeth Odundo, Faviola Reyes, Mark P Simons, Jamie A Fraser, Emma Hutley, Patrick Connor, Brett E Swierczewski, Eric Houpt, David R Tribble, Mark S Riddle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6117160?pdf=render

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