Experimental Evaluation of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Detection Sensitivity of BDProbeTec ™ ET

™which is based on SDA, a new nucleic acid amplification procedure, was tested for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae and was compared with that of the AMPLICOR (AMP) method for C. trachomatis (CT) and N. gonorrhoeae (NG). N. gonorrhoeae ATCC 49226 was used for a test strain and the urine specimens presented with C. trachomatis or N. gonorrhoeae were used. For the detection sensitivity comparison of both methods, N. gonorrhoeae was added to sterile urine to a final concentration of 10 3