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Isobella Honeyborne1, Bariki Mtafya2, Patrick P J Phillips3, Michael Hoelscher4, Elias N Ntinginya2, Anke Kohlenberg2, Andrea Rachow4, Gabriel Rojas-Ponce2, Timothy D McHugh5, Norbert Heinrich4.
Abstract
We evaluated the use of the molecular bacterial load (MBL) assay, for measuring viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum, in comparison with solid agar and liquid culture. The MBL assay provides early information on the rate of decline in bacterial load and has technical advantages over culture in either form.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24871215 PMCID: PMC4136187 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01128-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948