Cycle threshold (Ct)-relevance in culture growth
Ashish Prakash (Gurgaon, India), Ashish Kumar Prakash, Bornali Datta, Pinky Goyal, Poulomi Chatterjee, Gaurav Gupta
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Role of bronchoalveolar lavage in new sputum smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients
Rajendra Prasad (Lucknow, India), Rajendra Prasad, Abhishek Agarwal, Anand Verma, Rachit Sharma, Nikhil Gupta, Tasleem Raza, Amita Jain
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Gene Xpert MTB/RIF assay in bronchoscopy guided bronchial wash specimens in sputum negative pulmonary tuberculosis: Sensitive, rapid and most useful test for drug sensitive and drug resistant tuberculosis
Patil Shital (Latur (Maharashtra), India), Patil Shital, Agarwal Kailash, C.R. Choudhary
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To compare the diagnostic accuracy of acid fast bacilli smear results of induced sputum with broncho-alveolar lavage among pulmonary tuberculosis cases keeping acid fast bacilli culture as gold standard in a resource limited setting in non expectorating patients
Nausheen Saifullah (Karachi, Pakistan), Nausheen Saifullah, Naseem Ahmad, Saifullah Baig, Nadeem Rizvi
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GENE-XPERT gives early diagnosis in early tuberculosis
Ashish Prakash (Gurgaon, India), Ashish Kumar Prakash, Bornali Datta, Pinky Goyal, Poulomi Chatterjee, Gaurav Gupta
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Enhanced diagnosis of tuberculosis using a dual gene target detection approach
Ehsan Aryan (Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran), Ehsan Aryan, Fatemeh Estaji, Mahdi Kouhi-Noghondar, Masoud Yousefi, Zahra Meshkat, Mohammad Derakhshan, Bamdad Riahi-Zanjani
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Comparison of genotype MTBDRplus assay for rapid detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance with conventional drug susceptibility tests in a tertiary care hospital in India
Madhav Kale (Pune, India), Madhav K. Kale, Parag Khatavkar, Pravin Dumne, Meenakshi Satpute, Nilima Telang
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Genetic diversity of multidrug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from tuberculosis patients in Iran, using MIRU-VNTR technique
Azar Dokht Khosravi Boroujeni (Ahwaz, Islamic Republic of Iran), Azar Dokht Khosravi Boroujeni, Solmaz Khandan Dezfuli, Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki, Mohammad Hashemzadeh
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To determine diagnostic accuracy of gene xpert and sputum Ziehl-Neelsen staining taking sputum culture as gold standard
Wasib Shah (Rawalpindi, Pakistan), Wasib Shah
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Tuberculosis diagnosis in rural Namibia using gene Xpert MTB/RIF testing
Rebecca Taylor (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom), Rebecca Taylor
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Performance of XPERT MTB/RIF assay from fluorescent acid fast stained slides
Kauser Jabeen (Karachi, Pakistan), Shazia Chishty, Joveria Farooqi, Yusra Shafqat, Samreen Shafiq, Kauser Jabeen, Rumina Hasan
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The results of drug susceptibility testing of mycobacterium tuberculosis to rifampicin by Xpert® MTB / Rif, BACTEC MGIT 960 as compared with the method of seeding on solid nutrient media
Tatiana Ivanovna Morozova (Saratov, Saratov Oblast, Russian Federation), Tatiana Ivanovna Morozova, Tayiana Salina
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Improving tuberculosis case finding through active contact tracing: A community based cross-sectional survey in central Ethiopia
Lorenzo Cirri (Asella, Ethiopia), Lorenzo Cirri, Andreas Schoenfeld, Tafese Beyene Tufa, Torsten Feldt, Dieter Haeussinger
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Evaluation of PCR primers to detect mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in feces
Bhagya Kulasooriya (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), Bhagya Kulasooriya, Anoma Siribaddana, Kapila Senevirathne, Udaya Kalubovila, Punyajeeva Athukorala, Dinesh Dassanayake, Hirantha Pathirathne, Ruwani Kalupahana, Ruchika Fernando
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Molecular-genetic and microbiological study of lung resection tissues from tuberculosis patients in Ural region, Russia
Tatiana Umpeleva (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation), Tatiana Umpeleva, Kseniya Belousova, Leonid Lavrenchuk, Nataliya Eremeeva, Marionella Kravchenko, Diana Vachrusheva
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A study of the presence of unexpected granulomatous disease in lymph nodes excised during surgery for suspected or known breast cancer
Nicola Rowe (Market Drayton, United Kingdom), Nicola Rowe, Vijayta Duggal, Erum Shahabuddin, Thomas Kwan, Jennifer Kerks, Nawaid Ahmad, Harmesh Moudgil, Koottalai Srinivasan
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Can M. smegmatis be used as a real alternative for M. tuberculosis?
Hiroyuki Yamada (Tokyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Yamada, Kinuyo Chikamatsu, Akio Aono, Yuriko Igarashi, Yi Lina, Akiko Takaki, Satoshi Mitarai
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Resuscitation-promoting factor does not enhance Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture yield in archival lymph node aspirates
Laura Gleeson (Dublin, Ireland), Laura Gleeson, Philomena Raftery, Margaret Fitzgibbon, Galina Mukamolova, Thomas Rogers, Joseph Keane
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