Browsing by Subject "16S rRNA"

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    • Diagnostic performance of fecal Helicobacter pylori antigen test in Uganda 

      Owot, Jacob Canwat; Tuhumwire, Caleb; Tumuhimbise, Christine; Tusiime, Florence; Emmanuel, Byaruhanga; Lumori, Boniface A. E.; Okello, Samson (BMC gastroenterology, 2022)
      We evaluated the diagnostic performance of a qualitative stool antigen test (SAT) in individuals with dyspepsia in rural Uganda using the polymerase chain reaction-based 16S ribosomal RNA assay (16S rRNA) for nucleotide ...

    • Separating Putative Pathogens from Background Contamination with Principal Orthogonal Decomposition: Evidence for Leptospira in the Ugandan Neonatal Septisome 

      Schiff, Steven J.; Kiwanuka, Julius; Riggio, Gina; Nguyen, Lan; Mu, Kevin; Sproul, Emily; Bazira, Joel; Mwanga, Juliet; Tumusiime, Dickson; Nyesigire, Eunice; Lwanga, Nkangi; Bogale, Kaleb T.; Kapur, Vivek; Broach, James; Morton, Sarah; Warf, Benjamin C.; Poss, Mary (Frontiers in Medicine, 2016-06-09)
      Neonatal sepsis (NS) is responsible for over a 1 million yearly deaths worldwide. In the developing world NS is often treated without an identified microbial pathogen. Amplicon sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene can ...