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POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION AMPLIFICATION OF BACTERIAL 16S rRNA GENES IN INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS AND CONTROL PATIENT BLADDER BIOPSIES
1 Jan 1998
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PURPOSE: Several characteristics of the chronic bladder disease called interstitial cystitis (IC) suggest an infectious etiology. However, a single causative organism has not been convincingly cultured in vitro, and DNA for a variety of microorganisms has been found inconsistently in bladder biopsies from IC patients. We therefore looked for a possible bacterial cause for IC by using a sensitive nested PCR assay...
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