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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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| 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 |