TABLE 3.

Publications describing direct quantitation of bacterial transcripts in vivo

Species	Sample source	No. of genes	Method	Reference(s)
Borrelia burgdorferi	Tick	7	Light Cycler real-time RT-PCR	13
Borrelia burgdorferi	Mouse and tick	5	TaqMan real-time RT-PCR	19
Borrelia burgdorferi	Mouse and tick	3	Competitive RT-PCR	11
Helicobacter pylori	Human and mouse model	4	Light Cycler real-time RT-PCR	45
Helicobacter pylori	Mouse	3	Competitive RT-PCR	3
Porphyromonas gingivalis	Human	7	TaqMan real-time RT-PCR	46
Staphylococcus aureus	Human and guinea pig	2	Light Cycler real-time RT-PCR	14, 15, 59
Staphylococcus aureus	Rat	2	TaqMan real-time RT-PCR	54
Staphylococcus aureus	Rabbit	68	cDNA microarray	58
Streptococcus pyogenes	Mouse	17	TaqMan real-time RT-PCR	16
Streptococcus pyogenes	Human	1	TaqMan real-time RT-PCR
Streptococcus pneumoniae	Mouse	5	Comparative RT-PCR	37
Vibrio cholerae	Human	3,357	cDNA microarray	33