Clinical Utility of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Different Types of Cutaneous Tuberculosis and Tuberculids

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-10

  Tan, Suat Hoon ^a   Tan, H H ^b   Sun, Y J ^b   Goh, C L ^b  

^a NATIONAL SKIN CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Comparative usefulness; Cutaneous tuberculosis; Erythema induratum; Multibacillary; Paucibacillary; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ERYTHEMA INDURATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 0035234267     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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