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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study findings have been reported by scientists at Tongji University
April 28th, 2009
According to a study from Shanghai, People's Republic of China, "The clinical and pathological features of sarcoidosis and tuberculosis may mimic each other, and when the caseous necrosis is not seen in tuberculosis tissue, differentiation is not easy. This study evaluates the ability of real-time PCR quantification and sets the quantitive value to differentiate sarcoidosis from TB." "Formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded sections of biopsy samples, from 104 patients with sarcoidosis, 31 patients with tuberculosis, and 55 controls with other respiratory diseases (26 with nonspecific lymphadenitis and 29 with emphysema bullae), were collected to amplify insertion sequence...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-28)
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