Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test (MTD)
Diagnostic performance of amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test with cerebrospinal fluid, other nonrespiratory, and respiratory specimens
... Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test (MTD) was adapted to be used for cere- brospinal fluid (CSF) and a large variety of other nonrespiratory ...modified MTD ...
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Clinical Evaluation of the Enhanced Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test for Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Prison Inmates
... Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test (E-MTD; Gen-Probe, ...pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) was evaluated by testing 1,004 respiratory specimens from 489 Texas prison ...
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Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis by Gen Probe amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test
... for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by the Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test ...M. tuberculosis complex by ...the ...
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Screening of respiratory tract specimens for the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using the Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test
... Screening of Respiratory Tract Specimens for the Presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Using the Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test THOMAS BODMER,* ANDREA GUR[r] ...
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Comparative Evaluation of Initial and New Versions of the Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Respiratory and Nonrespiratory Specimens
... Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test (Gen-Probe) (AMTDT 1) and the new version of AMTDT (AMTDT 2) for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from ...
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Evaluation of Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test and PCR for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens
... The Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test AMTD is a direct specimen assay for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from respiratory samples.. rRNA is amp[r] ...
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Practical Strategies for Performance Optimization of the Enhanced Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test
... the MTD tests and that specimens with negative cul- tures were excluded from ...comparing MTD test results to the gold standard of clinical TB diagnosis (data not ...false-positive MTD ...
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens by polymerase chain reaction and Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test
... tuberculosis by the nucleic acid amplification methods PCR and MTD systems as well as by direct smear examination and culture.. Thirty-two specimens were positive for mycobacteria by sme[r] ...
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Direct Detection of Mycobacterial Species in Pulmonary Specimens by Two Rapid Amplification Tests, the Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis Direct Test and the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct Test
... GTMD test and the MTD test had sensitiv- ities of approximately 93% when testing on a battery of mixed smear-positive and smear-negative ...the MTD test ...GTMD test had sen- ...
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Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in nonrespiratory specimens by Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test
... the test is not useful for monitoring pa- tients receiving ...sensitive direct test to replace acid-fast staining and culture so that patients in treatment can be monitored ...
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Evaluation of Gen Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test by Using Respiratory and Nonrespiratory Specimens in a Tertiary Care Center Laboratory
... of tuberculosis, the key aspect of AMTD per- formance is the negative predictive value; ...with tuberculosis not be over- ...M. tuberculosis in all specimen sources regardless of the acid-fast smear ...
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Comparison of Conventional Bacteriology with Nucleic Acid Amplification (Amplified Mycobacterium Direct Test) for Diagnosis of Tuberculous Meningitis before and after Inception of Antituberculosis Chemotherapy
... monary tuberculosis suggests that these two drugs, and in par- ticular isoniazid, are responsible for the majority of bacteri- cidal activity in the first few days of treatment ...and MTD were not signifi- ...
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Diagnosis of tuberculosis by Amplicor Mycobacterium tuberculosis test: a multicenter study
... strains, tuberculosis represents a great public health problem ...of Mycobacterium tuber- culosis in clinical samples becomes more and more important in the control of tuberculosis both for the ...
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Evaluation of the Cobas TaqMan MTB Test for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Respiratory Specimens
... In conclusion, the performance of the Cobas TaqMan MTB test was comparable to that of the replaced Cobas Amplicor MTB system. The most important characteristic of the new system is its high sensitivity (79.5%) for ...
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Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens by a target amplified test system
... A total of 938 respiratory specimens 633 sputa, 249 bronchial and tracheal aspirates, and 56 bronchoalveolar lavages from 589 patients were tested for direct detection of Mycobacterium t[r] ...
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Relevance of Commercial Amplification Methods for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Clinical Samples
... than those obtained from smear-negative samples (the ratio between MTB culture-positive and smear-positive samples ranged from 1.0 to 2.8; mean, 1.6) In general, the test per- formed well and offers several ...
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Evaluation of the semiautomated Abbott LCx Mycobacterium tuberculosis assay for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory specimens
... M. tuberculosis Assay, however, is capable of amplifying DNA from viable as well as nonviable ...M. tuberculosis Assay in addition to routine cultures; both systems have different ob- jectives, and each ...
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Detection and identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum sediments by Amplicor PCR
... PCR test compared with that of culture was ...M. tuberculosis per ml, and 14% were medium positives containing 100 to 500 ...M. tuberculosis per ml was 69%, and the sensitivity for smear-negative, ...
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Genotypic Characterization of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Clinical Isolates from Subjects Resident in Rivers State, Nigeria
... characterize Mycobacterium tuberculosis recovered from clinical specimens of patients infected with drug resistant tuberculosis using phenotypic and genotypic ...
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1967.pdf
... Eradication programs have been very successful in the United States, Europe, and Australia (Michel et al., 2010; Radunz, 2006; Reviriego Gordejo & Vermeersch, 2006). For example, in the United States, the estimated ...
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