Infrequent MODS TB culture cross-contamination in a high-burden resource-poor setting
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Infrequent MODS TB culture cross-contamination in a high-burden resource-poor setting.
One obstacle to wider use of rapid liquid culture-based tuberculosis diagnostics such as the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay is concern about cross-contamination. We investigated the rate of laboratory cross-contamination in MODS, automated MBBacT, and Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) cultures performed in parallel, through triangulation of microbiologic (reculturing stored sampl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0732-8893
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.03.009