species specific bacterial probes(DNA, Monoclonal antibody)

[Torsten Boerchers]

chicago at ix.netcom.com (Chicago) wrote:
>In <mbransde-080895165122 at mpg7-97.appbio.utas.edu.au>
>mbransde at postoffice.newnham.utas.edu.au (Matthew Bransden) writes: 
>
>Do you know a laboratory that is doing PCR with universal bacterial
>primers on blood?  We have a novel pathogen in a patients prostate and
>want to see if we can isolate it from the blood.
>Brad Hennenfent, MD
>680 S. Federal Street Suite 601
>Chicago, IL  60605
>office 312/554-0629
>fax 312/786-9437
>e-mail chicago at ix.netcom.com

When I looked for universal (16S rRNA genes) PCR methods for 
environmental analysis I came across Prof. E. C. Boettger from
Medical Microbiology in Hannover, Germany, Fax: +49-511-532 4366.
You may want to look at a paper J. Clin. Microbiol. 31 (1993) 
646-652.Elimination of Contaminating DNA within Polymerase 
Chain Reaction Reagents: Implications for a General Approach 
to Detection of Unculatured Pathogens.

Hope this helps
Torsten
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