Table 2. Bacterial and eukaryotic DNA used to determine the specificity of the real-time PCR.

Bacterial DNA	Source/strain
Bordetella pertussis	Clinical specimen
Chlamydia trachomatis	Clinical specimen
Chlamydophila pneumoniae	ATCC VR-1310
Criblamydia sequanensis	CRIB-18
Enterococcus faecalis	ATCC 29212
Escherichia coli	ATCC 35218
Gardnerella vaginalis	Clinical specimen
Haemophilus influenzae	ATCC 49247
Klebsiella pneumoniae	ATCC 27736
Lactobacillus spp.	Clinical specimen
Legionella pneumophila	Clinical specimen
Listeria monocytogenes	Clinical specimen
Moraxella catharralis	Clinical specimen
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Clinical specimen
Neisseria lactamica	Clinical specimen
Neisseria weaveri	Clinical specimen
Neochlamydia hartmanella	ATCC 50802
Parachlamydia acanthamoebae strain BN9	ATCC VR-1476
Parachlamydia acanthamoebae strain Hall's coccus	ATCC VR-1476
Protochlamydia amoebophila strain UWE25	ATCC PRA-7
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	ATCC 27853
Rhabdochlamydia crassificans	CRIB-01
Simkania negevensis	ATCC VR-1471
Staphylococcus epidermidis	Clinical specimen
Streptococcus agalactiae	ATCC 13813
Streptococcus mutans	Clinical specimen
Streptococcus pneumoniae	Clinical specimen
Streptococcus pyogenes	ATCC 19615
Waddlia chondrophila	ATCC VR-1470
Eukaryotic DNA	Source/strain
Acanthamoebae castellanii	ATCC 30010
Candida albicans	ATCC 10231
Human cells	ATCC CCL-185