Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis in various biopsy and body fluid specimens by the AMPLICOR Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction test

Chest

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1190-1194

  Shah, Sanjay ^a   Miller, Albert ^a   Mastellone, Anthony ^a   Kim, Kyungmee ^a   Colaninno, Peter ^a   Hochstein, Lisa ^a   D'Amato, Richard ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY FLUID; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG BIOPSY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; SPUTUM CULTURE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031948250     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.113.5.1190     Document Type: Article

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