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Pulmonary tuberculosis in the West Bank, Palestinian Authority: molecular diagnostic approach.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 Mar 2011
Ereqat Suheir, Bar-Gal Gila K, Nasereddin Abedelmajeed, Said Sawsan, Greenblatt Charles L, Azmi Kifaya, Qaddomi Sharif E, Spigelman Mark, Ramlawi Asad, Abdeen Ziad
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness and feasibility of an insertion sequence (IS6110)-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay with conventional methods of detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and to analyse mutations present in the hot spot region of the RNA polymerase B subunit (rpoB) ge...
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