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Performance of a pyrosequencing platform in diagnosing drug-resistant extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in India.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Feb 2016
Georghiou S B, Ajbani K, Rodrigues C, Rodwell T C
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SETTING: Pyrosequencing diagnostic assays have shown great utility in identifying and characterizing pulmonary drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) infections. However, the method has yet to be evaluated for the diagnosis of drug-resistant extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of a pyrosequencing platform in establishing molecular drug resistance profiles for 79 clinical EPTB specimens at...
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