Utility of circulating cell-free Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA for the improved diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis.

Abdominal tuberculosis (ATB) continues to pose a major diagnostic challenge for clinicians due to its nonspecific clinical presentation, variable anatomical location and lack of sensitive diagnostic tools. In spite of the development of several assays till date; no single test has proved to be adequ...

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Main Authors: Pratibha Sharma, Divya Anthwal, Pooja Kumari, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Surabhi Lavania, Neera Sharma, Lokesh Kumar Sharma, Deepak Rath, Pavan Kumar Soraganvi, Ashish Sharma, A K Gadpayle, R S Taneja, Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi, Sagarika Haldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238119