Clinical suspicion as a primary guidance to use commercial amplification tests for rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 195-200

  Piersimoni, Claudio ^a   Nista, Domenico ^a   Zallocco, Diego ^a   Galassi, Maurizio ^a   Cimarelli, Maria E ^b   Tubaldi, Alberto ^c  

^a United Hospitals   (Italy)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Gen Prov Hosp   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical suspicion; Direct amplification tests; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYCOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 27744539862     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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