Standardized cotton swab sampling with nested quantitative polymerase chain reaction is effective for diagnosing ordinary scabies.
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DOI: 10.1093/ced/llad031
Abstract: BACKGROUND Low sensitivity of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for diagnosing scabies has been pointed out due to the difficulty in obtaining tissue containing S. scabiei DNA. OBJECTIVES To evaluate nested real-time quantitative PCR… read more here.
Keywords: standardized cotton; chain reaction; swab; polymerase chain ... See more keywords