Sensitivity optimisation of tuberculosis bioaerosol sampling.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in patient-derived bioaerosol is a potential tool to measure source case infectiousness. However, current bioaerosol sampling approaches have reported low detection yields in sputum-positive TB cases. To increase the util...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Patterson, Ryan Dinkele, Sophia Gessner, Carl Morrow, Mireille Kamariza, Carolyn R Bertozzi, Andrew Kamholz, Wayne Bryden, Charles Call, Digby F Warner, Robin Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238193