Bacteriophage-based tests for tuberculosis.
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*Corresponding author (email: ) Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, USA (MP) and Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (SK), Sevagram 442 102, India. under development. In general, phage assays have a turn around time of 48 hours, and require a laboratory infrastructure similar to that required for performing mycobacterial cultures.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Indian journal of medical microbiology
دوره 23 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005