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Validation of the MycoAlign system for Mycobacterium spp. identification.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Sept 2007
Olsen Randall J, Cernoch Patricia A, Austin Celest M, Graviss Edward A, Farkas Daniel H, Land Geoffrey A
Abstract excerpt
Validation of the MycoAlign assay, a newly developed Mycobacterium spp. identification system based on internal transcribed spacer-1 sequencing, was performed using 50 acid-fast bacilli (AFB)-positive clinical laboratory specimens. Forty-three (86%) diagnostic-level results were obtained, including 38 Mycobacterium spp. and 5 other AFB-positive genera. Three isolates (6%) had suboptimal identity scores with high...
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