Comparison of Two Molecular Methods for Rapid Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis

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Causse, Manuel
Ruiz, Pilar
Gutiérrez-Aroca, Juan-Bautista
Casal Román, Manuel
Publisher
American Society for Microbilogy
Date
2011
Subject
M. tuberculosis
Real-time PCR
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Abstract
Application of real-time PCR for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis enables results to be obtained in about 2 h. A total of 340 nonrespiratory samples were processed using two real-time PCR assay kits: Xpert MTB/RIF and Cobas TaqMan MTB. The sensitivity and specificity of the Xpert assay were 95% and 100%, respectively, compared to 78% and 98% for the Cobas assay.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10396/17593
Fuente
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 49 (8), 3065-3067 (2011)
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https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00491-11
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