Combination of commercially available molecular assays and culture based methods in diagnosis of tuberculosis and drug resistant tuberculosis

Early diagnosis of tuberculosis is of major clinical importance. Among 4733 clinical specimens collected from 3363 patients and subjected to Ziehl–Neelsen microscopy, 4109 were inoculated onto Löwenstein–Jensen slants and 3139 in Bactec/9000MB. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was performed in 3139 s...

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Autores principales: Gkaravela, Lamprini, Papadimitriou-Olivgeris, Matthaios, Foka, Antigoni, Kolonitsiou, Fevronia, Spiliopoulou, Anastasia, Charokopos, Nikolaos, Voulgaridis, Apostolos, Tsiamita, Maria, Marangos, Markos, Anastassiou, Evangelos D., Spiliopoulou, Iris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28689813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjm.2017.04.001

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28689813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjm.2017.04.001

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