Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in fecal specimens from adults diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis using the Xpert MTB/Rifampicin test

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kokuto, Hiroyuki ^a   Sasaki, Yuka ^a   Yoshimatsu, Shoji ^b   Mizuno, Kazue ^a   Yi, Lina ^a,c   Mitarai, Satoshi ^b,c  

^a Japan Anti Tuberculosis Association   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feces; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Xpert MTB RIF

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPID TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84978328507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofv074     Document Type: Article

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