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Detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum samples of patients from Jakarta, Indonesia by radioisotope-based PCR-dot blot hybridization.
The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health - 1 Jan 2012
Rosilawati Maria Lina, Yasmon Andi
Abstract excerpt
The problem of eradicating tuberculosis (TB) has become more complicated by the emergence of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Any rapid laboratory method that can be used to detect drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is urgently needed. In this study, we employed the radioisotope (32P)-based PCR-dot blot hybridization method on sputum samples from patients in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bacterial DNA...
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