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Vanessa Deggim1, Akos Somoskovi, Antje Voit, Erik C Böttger, Guido V Bloemberg.
Abstract
The Xpert MTB/RIF assay is a rapid and fully automated real-time PCR assay. The performance of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay as a primary screening test for urgent clinical specimens was evaluated during a 2-year period. The results showed that replacing smear microscopy with the Xpert MTB/RIF assay facilitates laboratory handling and improves the sensitivity and specificity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23616455 PMCID: PMC3697699 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00151-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948