PepMix™ M. tuberculosis (Ag85B

Quantification of M. tuberculosis DNA in Sputum During the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

and specificity and the culture of M. tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria can take weeks. Quantitative estimates of MTB DNA in sputum have been shown to correlate with numbers of viable bacilli before the onset of chemotherapy (1 -3 ). Once effective treatment

Isolation of M. tuberculosis RNA from Sputum

Analysis of RNA has many applications and has become increasingly important both in basic research and clinical application. The type and number of particular mRNA transcripts expressed in M. tuberculosis (MTB) bacilli under various

Rapid Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Using Roche AMPLICOR™ Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR Test

is exemplified by the resurgence of tuberculosis and the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis . The recent introduction of molecular technologies for the laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases into the clinical