A laboratory-based study to identify and speciate nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from specimens submitted to a central tuberculosis laboratory from throughout Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 766-788

  Sookan, L ^a,b   Coovadi, Y M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BIOPSY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRIP ASSAY; GENOTYPE ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; NONHUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTH AFRICA; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84929941468     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.8017     Document Type: Article

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