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Lysis of tubercle bacilli in fresh and stored sputum specimens: implications for diagnosing tuberculosis in stored and paucibacillary specimens by PCR

BACKGROUND: Nucleic acid amplification techniques are being used increasingly in diagnosing tuberculosis. In developing countries clinical samples are often stored for subsequent analysis since molecular tests are conducted at only a limited number of laboratories. This study was conducted to assess...

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Autores principales: Pathak, Divya, Chakravorty, Soumitesh, Hanif, Mahmud, Tyagi, Jaya Sivaswami
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2008200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17784945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-7-83