Use of Polymerase Chain Reaction to Diagnose Tuberculous Arthritis from Joint Tissues and Synovial Fluid

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-209

  Titov, Alexei G ^a   Vyshnevskaya, Elena B ^a   Mazurenko, Sergei I ^a   Santavirta, Seppo ^b   Konttinen, Yrjö T ^c,d  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c ORTON ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d BIOMEDICUM HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT; JOINT BIOPSY; JOINT DESTRUCTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 0742283965     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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