Optimising fluorescein diacetate sputum smear microscopy for assessing patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Assessing Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) viability by fluorescein diacetate (FDA) microscopy can predict TB culture results, treatment response and infectiousness. However, diverse methods have been published. We aimed to optimise FDA microscopy, minimising sputum processing, biohazard...

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Autores principales: Datta, Sumona, Alvarado, Keren, Gilman, Robert H., Valencia, Teresa, Aparicio, Christian, Ramos, Eric S., Montoya, Rosario, Evans, Carlton A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214131

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6490897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31039160
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214131

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