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Improvement of Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection in sputum using DNA extract...
Bello,Graziele Lima; Morais,Franciele Costa Leite; Wolf,Jonas Michel; Gehlen,Mirela; Soares,Tainá dos Santos; Halon,Maria Laura; Barcellos,Regina BonesAbstract Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the infectious diseases with high mortality in the world. DNA amplification techniques have been used to overcome barriers to the diagnosis of this disease. However, the success of these methodologies is highly dependent on the DNA obtained from the sample. This study was carried out to verify whether the DNA extracted by sonication (in house method) could yield suitable DNA...
Detection of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains Using Kit SIRE N...
Miranda,Silvana Spindola de; Almeida,Isabela Neves de; Mansur,Maria de Fátima Filardi Oliveira; Figueredo,Lida Jouca de Assis; Carvalho,Wânia da SilvaAbstract (1) Background: The Commercial Kit SIRE Nitratase® PlastLabor, is a drug susceptibility test kit used to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to first-line TB treatment drugs. The present study aimed at evaluating its performance in a multicenter study. (2) Methods: To determine its accuracy, the proportion methods in Lowenstein Jensen medium or the BACTECTMMGITTM960 system was used as a gold s...