Lysis of tubercle bacilli in fresh and stored sputum specimens: Implications for diagnosing tuberculosis in stored and paucibacillary specimens by PCR

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pathak, Divya ^a,c   Chakravorty, Soumitesh ^a,d   Hanif, Mahmud ^b   Tyagi, Jaya Sivaswami ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre   (India)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; BACTERIOLYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERNATANT; TUBERCULOSIS; FREEZING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SPUTUM; TIME;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIOLYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FREEZING; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35248814291     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-83     Document Type: Article

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