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Direct detection of rifampin- and isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in auramine-rhodamine-positive sputum specimens by real-time PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 2004
Ruiz Maite, Torres Maria J, Llanos Ana C, Arroyo Aurelio, Palomares Jose C, Aznar Javier
Abstract excerpt
Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of a molecular assay based on a real-time PCR technique, carried out with a LightCycler instrument (Roche Biochemicals), to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli and to detect rifampin and isoniazid resistance in DNA extracts from sputum samples. We studied three genes: rpoB, which is associated with rifampin resistance, and katG and inhA, which are associated...
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