Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mixed broth cultures using DNA probes

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 668-671

  Middleton, Andrew M ^a   Chadwick, Maureen V ^a   Gaya, Harold ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture identification; DNA probes; Dual infection; Mycobacterium avium complex; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA PROBE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031451011     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00476.x     Document Type: Article

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