Modern approaches to a rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis: Promises and challenges ahead

Tuberculosis

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-201

  Tiwari, Ram Pramod ^a,d   Hattikudur, Narendra S ^a   Bharmal, Ramesh N ^b   Kartikeyan, S ^b   Deshmukh, Neeta M ^c   Bisen, Prakash S ^d  

^a Nicholas Piramal India Limited   (India)

^b GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja Hospital   (India)

^d Seedling Academy of Design   (India)

Author keywords

ELISA; Gamma interferon assay; Nucleic acid amplification; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MOLECULAR MARKER; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; Q BETA REPLICASE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATCH TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 34047262669     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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