Suitability of IS6110 based polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum of new pulmonary tuberculosis cases

• Main Authors: Niladri Sekhar Das (Author), Deepak Kumar Mendiratta (Author), Rahul Narang (Author), Dipak C Thamke (Author), Pratibha Narang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Objectives: Early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is one of the primary challenges in curtailing its spread. Nucleic acid amplification methods targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) sequences in clinical specimens are increasingly in use as a tool for early tuberculosis...