Rapid, simple and sensitive detection of Q fever by loop-mediated isothermal amplification of the htpAB gene.

• Main Authors: Lei Pan (Author), Lijuan Zhang (Author), Desheng Fan (Author), Xiuchun Zhang (Author), Hong Liu (Author), Qunying Lu (Author), Qiyi Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Q fever is the most widespread zoonosis, and domestic animals are the most common sources of transmission. It is not only difficult to distinguish from other febrile diseases because of the lack of specific clinical manifestations in humans, but it is also difficult to identify the disea...