Comparison of in house polymerase chain reaction with conventional techniques for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in granulomatous lymphadenopathy

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 355-361

  Singh, Krishna K ^a   Muralidhar, M ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Chattopadhyaya, T K ^a   Kapila, Kusum ^a   Singh, Manoj K ^a   Sharma, S K ^a   Jain, N K ^b   Tyagi, Jaya S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre   (India)

Author keywords

devR polymerase chain reaction; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculous lymphadenitis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXCISION; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 0034069410     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.5.355     Document Type: Article

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