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Bias in detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis polyclonal infection: Use clinical samples or cultures?
Molecular and cellular probes - 1 Jun 2017
Farmanfarmaei Ghazaleh, Kargarpour Kamakoli Mansour, Sadegh Hamid Reza, Masoumi Morteza, Abdolrahimi Farid, Fateh Abolfazl, Ebrahimzadeh Nayereh, Javadi Gholamreza, Rahimi Jamnani Fatemeh, Vaziri Farzam, Siadat Seyed Davar
Abstract excerpt
The application of MIRU-VNTR has unveiled that infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be polyclonal. Our comparative study demonstrated that based on the studied samples (clinical specimen or culture) detection of polyclonal M. tuberculosis infection can be significantly different.
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