Evaluation of a commercial test based on ligase chain reaction for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory specimens

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 431-435

  Ribeiro, Fabíola Karla Corrêa ^a   Do Valle Dettoni, Valdério ^a   Peres, Renata Lyrio ^a   Vinhas, Solange Alves ^a   Có, Tatiana Resende ^a   Dietze, Rynaldo ^a   Palaci, Moisés ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Molecular biology; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BRAZIL; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 11244310579     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822004000600001     Document Type: Article

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