Reduction in turnaround time for laboratory diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by routine use of a nucleic acid amplification test

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-254

  Moore, Douglas F ^a   Guzman, Joseph A ^a   Mikhail, Lydia T ^a  

^a Orange County Health Care Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis; NAAT; Nucleic acid amplification; Turnaround time

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SMEAR;

DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 23644441509     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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