Effectiveness of an integrated real-time PCR method for detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in smear-negative extrapulmonary samples in an area of low tuberculosis prevalence

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 513-515

  Moure, Raquel ^a   Martín, Rogelio ^a,b   Alcaide, Fernando ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BODY FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMEAR; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 84863398224     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06467-11     Document Type: Article

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