Evaluation of Fluorotype MTB for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA in clinical specimens from a low-incidence country

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hofmann Thiel, Sabine ^a   Hoffmann, Harald ^a  

^a Synlab MVZ Gauting   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorotype MTB; MTBC; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; NAAT; Nucleic acid amplification; PCR; Respiratory; TB diagnostics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84893190677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-59     Document Type: Article

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