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Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in a microbiological laboratory.
Medecine et maladies infectieuses - 1 Oct 2011
El Khéchine A, Drancourt M
Abstract excerpt
The positive diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis still relies on the direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains after isolation, culture, and identification, or on the detection of specific DNA sequences. Clinical specimens for the direct diagnosis include respiratory tract and stool specimens, which can all be collected with a "tuberculosis kit" to simplify and standardize clinical and...
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