| Autor: |
Vladimirskiĭ MA, Shipina LK, Levchenko MV |
| Jazyk: |
ruština |
| Zdroj: |
Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh [Probl Tuberk Bolezn Legk] 2003 (12), pp. 28-30. |
| Abstrakt: |
The results of testing sputum for Mycobacterium tuberculosis by different methods: polymerase chain reaction (PCR), luminescence microscopy, and culture tests were compared. Clinical sputum samples were studied in 62 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 72 patients with non-specific diseases of the lung. The specificity of PCR was 98.7%. The sensitivity of PCR was 59.6%; that of cultural tests was 43.8%. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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