Detection of mycobacterial DNA in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens by duplex polymerase chain reaction: Application to histopathologic diagnosis

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 78-83

  Osaki, Mitsuhiko ^a   Adachi, Hironobu ^a   Gomyo, Yoshihito ^a   Yoshida, Haruhiko ^b   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

duplex PCR; formalin fixed; mycobacteriosis; paraffin embedded tissue; rapid diagnosis; sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031047525     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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