Diagnosis (TB)

CDC Guidelines of TB Laboratory Procedures Being Adopted

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 18th, 1996

Laboratories around the nation are adopting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations on mycobacterial testing.

In response to the resurgence of tuberculosis the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended the use of certain mycobacteriology laboratory methods to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and/or minimize times to complete specimen processing.

In this study researcher Jerome I. Tokars and colleagues examined the extent to which these recommended methods were being used in hospital laboratories (U.S Hospital Mycobacterial Laboratories: Status and Comparison with State Public Health Department...

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