Rapid detection of smear-negative Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR and sequencing for rifampin resistance with DNA extracted directly from slides

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-52

  Patnaik, M ^a   Liegmann, K ^a   Peter, J B ^a  

^a Specialty Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM SMEAR;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0035165547     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.1.51-52.2001     Document Type: Article

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