GeneXpert MTB/RIF Outperforms Mycobacterial Culture in Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Salivary Sputum

GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay has been endorsed for the diagnosis of pulmonary TB due to its high sensitivity and specificity for culture positive TB. There is no doubt that Xpert could not be more sensitive than mycobacterial culture, while the positive rate of Xpert among sputum samples was high...

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Autores principales: Shi, Jin, Dong, Wenzhu, Ma, Yifeng, Liang, Qian, Shang, Yuanyuan, Wang, Fen, Huang, Hairong, Pang, Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1514381

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1514381

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