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Colorimetric microwell plate reverse-hybridization assay for Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection
1 Mar 2011
Abstract excerpt
Direct smear examination using Ziehl-Neelsen staining for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is inexpensive and easy to use, but has the major limitation of low sensitivity. Rapid molecular methods are becoming more widely available in centralized laboratories, but they depend on timely reporting of results and strict quality assurance obtainable only from costly commercial kits available in high burden...
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