A Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA)-Based Real-Time PCR Assay for the Rapid Detection of Multiple Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes Directly from Positive Blood Culture

• Lingxiang Zhu,

  Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences & Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Dingxia Shen,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

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• Qiming Zhou,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zexia Li,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Xiangdong Fang,

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences & Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Quan-Zhen Li

  * E-mail: quan.li@utsouthwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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