Clinical Efficacy of the Amplified Mycobacteriium tuberculosis Direct Test for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1606-1610

  Bradley, Stephen P ^b   Reed, Sharon L ^b   Catanzaro, Antonino ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0029947195     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.153.5.8630609     Document Type: Article

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