Assessment of Laboratory Performance of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 5258-5261

  Ridderhof, John C ^a   Williams, Laurina O ^a   Legois, Sue ^b   Shult, Peter A ^b   Metchock, Beverly ^a   Kubista, Louise N ^b   Handsfield, James H ^a   Fehd, Ronald J ^a   Robinson, Pamela H ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SAFETY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UNITED STATES;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0242425723     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.5258-5261.2003     Document Type: Article

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