Analytical performance of the roche Lightcycler® Mycobacterium detection kit for the diagnosis of clinically important mycobacterial species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Omar, Shaheed V ^a   Roth, Andreas ^b   Ismail, Nazir A ^a   Erasmus, Linda ^c   Ehlers, Marthie ^a   Kock, Marleen ^a   Paulse, Nuraan ^d   Said, Halima M ^a   Hoosen, Anwar A ^a   Reischl, Udo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Institut für Pathologie HELIOS Klinikum E v Bering   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DEVICE; DNA EXTRACTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80053060920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024789     Document Type: Article

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