Performance of an IS6110-based PCR assay and the COBAS AMPLICOR MTB PCR system for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in human lymph node samples

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3089-3092

  Rimek, Dagmar ^a   Tyagi, Sachin ^a   Kappe, Reinhard ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BACTERIAL DNA; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERFORMANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036702291     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3089-3092.2002     Document Type: Article

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