Comparison of two nucleic acid amplification assays, the Xpert MTB/RIF assay and the amplified mycobacterium tuberculosis direct assay, for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory and nonrespiratory specimens

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3659-3662

  Teo, Jeanette ^a   Jureen, Roland ^a   Chiang, Donald ^a   Chan, Douglas ^a   Lin, Raymond ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; ASSAY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTRIC SUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS DIRECT ASSAY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; SPUTUM; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; URINALYSIS;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80053551983     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00211-11     Document Type: Article

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