Neue Entwicklungen in der Mykobakteriendiagnostik. [Current developments in Mycobacteria diagnosis]
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serval:BIB_226C32D38B2A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Publications
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Title
Neue Entwicklungen in der Mykobakteriendiagnostik. [Current developments in Mycobacteria diagnosis]
Journal
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift
ISSN
0036-7672 (Print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
09/1995
Volume
125
Number
37
Pages
1726-34
Notes
English Abstract
Journal Article
Review --- Old month value: Sep 16
Journal Article
Review --- Old month value: Sep 16
Abstract
The reemergence of tuberculosis in the industrialized countries has hastened the development of new laboratory techniques. Hence, well-known shortcomings of traditional techniques such as the lack of a rapid and specific detection system, the delayed availability of species identification and drug susceptibility results, and the lack of a reliable method for determining strain identity for epidemiological purposes, have become immediate targets for implementing molecular biology techniques. In particular, nucleic acid amplification techniques, restriction fragment-length polymorphism and single-strand conformation polymorphism analyses have dramatically improved diagnostic timeliness and accuracy of mycobacteriology laboratory results. Our paper reviews recent developments and comments on the diagnostic applications of the new tools as compared to traditional techniques.
Keywords
Amino Acid Sequence
Drug Resistance/genetics
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mycobacterium/*isolation & purification
Mycobacterium Infections/diagnosis/*microbiology
Mycobacterium tuberculosis/drug effects/isolation & purification
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
Rifampin/pharmacology
Switzerland/epidemiology
Tuberculosis/epidemiology
Pubmed
Web of science
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