Immuno-diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum, and reduction of timelines for its positive cultures to within 3 h by pathogen-specific thymidylate kinase expression assays

BACKGROUND: Laboratory diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) is traditionally based on microscopy and or culture. Microscopy is however, only sensitive to a specified degree of bacillary load not present in HIV co-infected persons. Traditional cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), on the other ha...

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Autores principales: Wayengera, Misaki, Mwebaza, Ivan, Welishe, Johnson, Bayiyana, Alice, Kateete, David P., Wampande, Eddie, Kirimunda, Samuel, Kigozi, Edgar, Katabazi, Fred, Musubika, Carol, Kyobe, Samuel, Babirye, Peace, Asiimwe, Benon, Joloba, Moses L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28789704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2649-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28789704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2649-y

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