Detection and diagnosis of mycobacterial pathogens using PCR

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 163-174

  Glennon, Maura ^a   Cormican, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacteria; Diagnostics assays; Drug resistance; Microarrays; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; PCR

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BCG VACCINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DEVICE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0035558381     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.1.2.163     Document Type: Review

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