Standardization of in-house polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the reference tropical disease hospital in the State of Goiás, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 415-419

  Vasconcelos Rodrigues, Márcia Alves ^a   Bisol Serafini, Álvaro ^a   De Souza Pereira, Marieta ^a   Dias Da Silva, Thathiane ^b   Fouad Rabahi, Marcelo ^c   Lemes De Alves, Suely ^d   Kipnis, André ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Secretaria Estadual da Agricultura   (Brazil)

^c Secretaria Estadual de Sau de Hospital de Doenc as Tropicais   (Brazil)

^d Laboratório Central   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Culture; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Smear; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL CARE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARDIZATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 3242708022     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762004000400012     Document Type: Article

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