Direct detection of mycobacterial species in pulmonary specimens by two rapid amplification tests, the Gen-Probe amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test and the genotype mycobacteria direct test

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3635-3639

  Syre, H ^a,b   Myneedu, V P ^c   Arora, V K ^c   Grewal, H M S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Lala Ram Sarup Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE;

ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 70449688273     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00411-09     Document Type: Article

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