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Utility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR in ruling out active disease and impact on isolation requirements in a low prevalence setting

OBJECTIVE: To analyze and interpret clinical microbiology data for specimens tested with the fluorochrome stain (AFB stain), mycobacterial culture and a laboratory-developed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) PCR in order to understand the performance of each test and to demonstrate the utility of MTB...

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Autores principales: Hamdi, Ahmed, Fida, Madiha, Deml, Sharon M., Abu Saleh, Omar, Wengenack, Nancy L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7473994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2020.100181

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