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Polymerase chain reaction in clinically suspected genitourinary tuberculosis : comparison with intravenous urography, bladder biopsy, and urine acid fast bacilli culture
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It is evident from this series that PCR provides a much faster diagnosis of urinary MTb and is a rapid, sensitive, and specific diagnostic method and avoids a delay in starting treatment.About:
This article is published in Urology.The article was published on 2000-10-01. It has received 128 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urinary bladder.read more
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A systematic review of rapid diagnostic tests for the detection of tuberculosis infection.
Jacqueline Dinnes,Jonathan J Deeks,Heinke Kunst,Andrea L. Gibson,E Cummins,Norman Waugh,Francis Drobniewski,Ajit Lalvani +7 more
TL;DR: High specificity estimates suggest that NAAT tests should be the first-line test for ruling in TB meningitis, but that they need to be combined with the result of other tests in order to rule out disease.
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Laboratory Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infections in Adult Patients
TL;DR: Urinary tract infections are among the most common bacterial infections and account for a significant part of the workload in clinical microbiology laboratories, with the increase in resistance to some antimicrobial agents particularly the resistance to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole seen in E. coli.
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Laboratory diagnosis of urinary tract infections in adult patients. Authors' reply
TL;DR: The most common cause of UTI infection is E. coli infection as mentioned in this paper, which accounts for a significant part of the workload in clinical microbiology laboratories. But the distribution of the pathogens that cause UTIs is changing.
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EAU guidelines for the management of genitourinary tuberculosis.
Mete Cek,Severin Lenk,Kurt G. Naber,Michael C. Bishop,Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen,Henry Botto,Magnus Grabe,Bernard Lobel,Juan Palou Redorta,Peter Tenke +9 more
TL;DR: Although chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment, surgery in the form of ablation or reconstruction may be unavoidable and both radical and reconstructive surgery should be carried out in the first 2 months of intensive chemotherapy.
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Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis by PCR.
TL;DR: This review is primarily focused on the diagnosis of several clinical forms of EPTB by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using different gene targets, and novel diagnostic modalities such as nucleic acid amplification (NAA) can be useful in varied forms of TB.
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Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis by amplification of mycobacterial DNA in clinical samples.
Anne Brisson-Noel,Denise Lecossier,Xavier Nassif,Brigitte Gicquel,Veronique Levy-Frebault,AllanJ. Hance +5 more
TL;DR: A method based on DNA amplification and hybridisation for the rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was used to test 35 clinical specimens from 34 patients in whom tuberculosis was suspected.
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis by DNA amplification in clinical practice evaluation
A Brisson-Noel,C Aznar,C Chureau,Son V. Nguyen,C Pierre,M Bartoli,R Bonete,G Pialoux,Brigitte Gicquel,G Garrigue +9 more
TL;DR: The potential of DNA amplification for early diagnosis of mycobacterial infections is confirmed and pre-treatment of samples with guanidium thiocyanate reduced the proportion of false-negative results and of samples that contained inhibitors.
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Detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical samples by using polymerase chain reaction and a nonradioactive detection system
Arend H. J. Kolk,A. R. J. Schuitema,S. Kuijper,J. Van Leeuwen,P. W. M. Hermans,J. D. A. Van Embden,Rudy A. Hartskeerl +6 more
TL;DR: Clinical data supported the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the majority of the 35 patients from whom those samples were obtained, and PCR detected M. tuberculosis complex bacteria in 35 of 178 culture- and ZN-negative samples.
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Trends in incidence of acute leukaemia.
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Use of polymerase chain reaction for rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis.
TL;DR: A DNA amplification assay using the polymerase chain reaction technique designed for the rapid identification of Mycobacterium bovis organisms was used to test 211 human mycobacterial isolates and 177 clinical specimens previously submitted for routine myCobacterial culture.