- Original Article
- Peripheral-Blood-Based PCR Assay to Identify Patients with Childhood Tuberculosis
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Soo Sung Park, Byoung Moon Ahn, Eun Ryoung Kim, Il Soo Kim, Jae Jong Kim, Yu Jin Rha, Han Ho Park
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(6):841-849. Published online June 15, 1997
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Purpose : There is an urgent need for rapid and accurate diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis.
Recently, developments in molecular biology have raised hopes about the possibilities of new
strategies for tuberculosis diagnosis. Most of these methods have focused on the application of
PCR to sputum samples from patients with suspected mycobacterial disease. We used a nested
PCR to detect circuclating Mycobacterial tuberculosis DNA in... |
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