False-positive gen-probe direct Mycobacterium tuberculosis amplification test results for patients with pulmonary M. kansasii and M. avium infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 175-178

  Jorgensen, James H ^a   Salinas, Jesse R ^a   Paxson, Rosemary ^a   Magnon, Karen ^b   Patterson, Jan E ^a   Patterson, Thomas F ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b Baptist Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SIMIAE; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032943030     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.1.175-178.1999     Document Type: Article

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