| Literature DB >> 15911814 |
T Takahashi1, T Nakayama, M Tamura, K Ogawa, H Tsuda, A Morita, M Hara, M Togo, H Shiota, Y Suzuki, M Minami, H Ishikawa, K Miki, E Shikata, S Takahashi, T Kuragano, K Matsumoto, S Sawada, T Mizutani.
Abstract
The authors examined the usefulness of nested PCR (N-PCR) to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) DNA in CSF for assessing the clinical course of tuberculous meningitis (TBM). N-PCR successfully detected MTB DNA in all nine CSF samples from patients with suspected TBM. During anti-tuberculosis treatments, N-PCR results converted from positive to negative, correlating with the improvement of the patient's clinical condition.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 15911814 DOI： 10.1212/01.WNL.0000162052.13838.B2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurology ISSN： 0028-3878 Impact factor: 9.910