Improved diagnostic value of PCR in the diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis leading to infertility

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 927-931

  Bhanu, N Vijaya ^a,b   Singh, Urvashi B ^a   Chakraborty, Milan ^a   Suresh, Naga ^a   Arora, Jyoti ^a   Rana, Tanu ^a   Takkar, D ^a   Seth, Pradeep ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOMETRIUM ASPIRATE; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LAPAROSCOPY; MPT64 GENE; MULTIPLE SAMPLING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOUTERINE POUCH; RECTOUTERINE POUCH FLUID; SAMPLING; SMEAR; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOUGLAS' POUCH; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LAPAROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, FEMALE GENITAL;

EID: 25844434687     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45943-0     Document Type: Article

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