PCR detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in necrotising non-granulomatous lymphadenitis using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue: A study in Thai patients

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 812-815

  Nopvichai, C ^a   Sanpavat, A ^a   Sawatdee, R ^a   Assanasen, T ^a   Wacharapluesadee, S ^a   Thorner, P S ^a,b   Shuangshoti, S ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KIKUCHI FUJIMOTO DISEASE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHILS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349125380     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2008.062828     Document Type: Article

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