An evaluation study on phenotypical methods and real-time PCR for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputa of two health centers in Iran

Background and Objectives: For further confirmation of the previous in-house real-time PCR and CYP 141 target as a rapid and cheap diagnostic technique and a new target for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, we evaluated and compared the results of smear, culture and real-time PCR in s...

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Main Authors: Shirin Sadr, Davood Darban-Sarokhalil, Gholam Reza Irajian, Abbas Ali Imani Fooladi, Jaleh Moradi, Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2017-05-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:https://ijm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijm/article/view/1358