| Literature DB >> 19116359 |
Rendong Fang1, Xia Li, Lin Hu, Qimin You, Jing Li, Jie Wu, Peng Xu, Huayan Zhong, Ying Luo, Jian Mei, Qian Gao.
Abstract
Cross-priming amplification (CPA) technology for tuberculosis diagnosis from sputum specimens was evaluated. The sensitivity of CPA from smear- and liquid culture-positive specimens was 96.9%, and that from smear-negative and liquid culture-positive specimens was 87.5%. The specificity of CPA in culture-negative specimens was 98.8%.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 19116359 PMCID: PMC2650920 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01528-08
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948