Short report: The CyScope® fluorescence microscope, a reliable tool for tuberculosis diagnosis in resource-limited settings

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 906-908

  Lehman, Leopold G ^a   Yamadji, Arlette L Ngapmen ^b   Sack, Françoise Ngo ^a   Bilong, Charles F Bilong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURAMINE; RHODAMINE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CONTROL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; STAINING; ZIEHL NEELSEN STAINING; CHEMISTRY; ECONOMICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI (CLASS);

BENZOPHENONEIDUM; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHODAMINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79958057488     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0153     Document Type: Article

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