Diagnosis of tuberculosis - 5 years experience after the estabishment of the TB National Reference Laboratory, National Center Of Infectious and parasitic diseases

Problems of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-6

  Bachiyska, E ^a   Kantardjiev, T ^a   Ivanova, A ^a   Atanasova, Y ^a   Merdzhanov, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

NCIPD; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACID FAST BACILLUS STAINING; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BULGARIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSCOPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM SMEAR; STAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 83455244336     PISSN: 02049155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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