Comparison of led and conventional fluorescence microscopy for detection of acid fast bacilli in a Low-Incidence setting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Minion, Jessica ^a,b,c   Pai, Madhukar ^a,b   Ramsay, Andrew ^d   Menzies, Dick ^a,b   Greenaway, Christina ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOCARDIA PURIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOMYCES; TSUKAMURELLA TYROSINOSOLVENS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD;

BACILLI (CLASS);

ACID;

ACIDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79960641598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022495     Document Type: Article

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