Chlorhexidine decontamination of sputum for culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Culture of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the gold standard method for the laboratory diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, after effective decontamination. RESULTS: We evaluated squalamine and chlorhexidine to decontaminate sputum specimens for the culture of mycobacteria. Eight sputum sp...

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Autores principales: Asmar, Shady, Drancourt, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26238865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-015-0479-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26238865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-015-0479-4

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