Diagnosis

Amplicor MTB Test Shows High Sensitivity

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 20th, 1996

Although the Amplicor Mycobacterium tuberculosis test is acceptable for routine use in the clinical laboratory, it should be run as an adjunct to smears and culture with at least three samples for each patient, according to a report from the Institut Pasteur of the West Indies.

The incidence of dual HIV and M. tuberculosis infection is high in the Caribbean. In this study researcher Anne Devallois and colleagues assessed a PCR based test for detection of M. tuberculosis in pathological specimens in the French Caribbean ("Evaluation of Amplicor MTB Test as Adjunct to Smears and Culture for Direct Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the...

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