Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR analysis of urine and other clinical samples from AIDS and non-HIV-infected patients

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 281-285

  Sechi, Leonardo A ^a   Pinna, Maria Piera ^a   Sanna, Alberto ^a   Pirina, Piero ^a   Ginesu, Franco ^a   Saba, Franca ^a   Aceti, Antonio ^a   Turrini, Franco ^b   Zanetti, Stefania ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b Nurex Bioresearch   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

AIDS patients; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Nested PCR; Urine samples

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS;

BACILLI; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030768990     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1997.0119     Document Type: Article

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