Combining Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) and high-resolution melt analysis to reduce diagnostic delay in mycobacterial lymphadenitis

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 482-488

  Wright, Colleen A ^a   Hoek, Kim G P ^a   Marais, Ben J ^a   Van Helden, Paul ^a   Warren, Rob M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration biopsy; High resolution melting analysis; Lymph node; Mycobacteria; PCR; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DENATURATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION DNA MELTING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STANDARD; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 77954420029     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.21223     Document Type: Article

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