The continuing search for Mycobacterium tuberculosis involvement in sarcoidosis: A study on archival biopsy specimens

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Svendsen, Claus Bo ^a,b   Milman, Nils ^b   Rasmussen, Erik Michael ^a   Thomsen, Vibeke Østergaard ^a   Andersen, Claus Bøgelund ^b   Krogfelt, Karen Angeliki ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; In situ hybridisation; Mycobacterium; Paraffin embedding; Polymerase chain reaction; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79952721204     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2010.00205.x     Document Type: Article

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