Neisseria gonorrhoeae nucleic acid
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Indications
Specimen
- genital discharge
- body fluid
- endocervical tissue
- self-collected vulvovaginal swabs at least as accurate as clinician-collected endocervical swabs
- store body fluids at 4 degrees C
- store tissue at -20 degrees C or below
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References
- ↑ Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests, 3rd ed. Teitz ed., W.B. Saunders, 1995
- ↑ Stewart CMW Assessment of self taken swabs versus clinician taken swab cultures for diagnosing gonorrhoea in women: single centre, diagnostic accuracy study. BMJ 2012;345:e8107 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23236033 <Internet> http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8107