Comparison of Culture, Real-Time DNA Amplification Assay and Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Zendy

Adil Karadağ | Zendy; Egemen Usta | Zendy; Kemal Bılgın | Zendy; Akif Koray Güney | Zendy; Cafer Eroğlu | Zendy; Murat Günaydın | Zendy

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Comparison of Culture, Real-Time DNA Amplification Assay and Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Author(s) -

Adil Karadağ,

Egemen Usta,

Kemal Bılgın,

Akif Koray Güney,

Cafer Eroğlu,

Murat Günaydın

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

balkan medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 2146-3131

pISSN - 2146-3123

DOI - 10.5152/balkanmedj.2012.061

Subject(s) - ziehl–neelsen stain , mycobacterium tuberculosis , tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , mycobacterium , medicine , biology , pathology , acid fast , sputum

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still a substantial health problem universally. Although culture is the gold standard method, reliable, rapid and new methods are required for effective struggle with disease. We retrospectively compared the results of Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen (EZN) stain and real-time DNA amplification assay (BD ProbeTec ET system) with culture.

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