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Modified SDA Effectively Detects TB

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 3rd, 1996

Multiplex strand displacement amplification (SDA) is highly sensitive and specific in detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria in fluorescent media, according to a report from manufacturer Becton Dickinson Research.

The report was one of several evaluating advances in tuberculosis diagnostic techniques presented at the 96th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 19-23, 1996 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The detection of metabolic activity such as CO₂ production or O₂ depletion can signal the presence of acid fast bacilli much earlier than the detection of colony...

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