A novel, rapid (within hours) culture-free diagnostic method for detecting live Mycobacterium tuberculosis with high sensitivity

Background: Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are widely used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB), but cannot discriminate live bacilli from dead bacilli. Live bacilli can be isolated by culture methods, but this is time-consuming. We developed a de novo TB diagnostic method that detects only live...

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Main Authors: Wen-Hung Wang, Rikiya Takeuchi, Shu-Huei Jain, Yong-Huang Jiang, Sonoko Watanuki, Yoshiharu Ohtaki, Kazunari Nakaishi, Satoshi Watabe, Po-Liang Lu, Etsuro Ito
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:EBioMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396420303832

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