Evaluation of in-house PCR for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nakiyingi, Lydia ^a   Kateete, David P ^a   Ocama, Ponsiano ^a   Worodria, William ^a   Sempa, Joseph B ^a   Asiimwe, Benon B ^a   Katabazi, Fred A ^a   Katamba, Achilles ^a   Huang, Laurence ^b   Joloba, Moses L ^a   Mayanja Kizza, Harriet ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CD4 cell counts; HIV infected; HIV TB co infection; In house PCR; Lowenstein Jensen culture; Nucleic acid amplification tests; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Resource limited settings; Sensitivity; Smear negative TB; Specificity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; UGANDA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UGANDA;

EID: 84865657401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-487     Document Type: Article

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