Spinal involvement may be the first manifestation of tuberculosis and the problem that drives
the patient to seek medical care. Spinal tuberculosis (often called Pott's disease) is by …

Oligonucleotides specific at a genus, group, or species level were defined by a systematic
comparison of small-subunit rRNA sequences from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. bovis …

A comparison of the DNA sequence of the 16S rRNA revealed a region in which there was a
minor variation between the species of mycobacteria. This information was used to develop …

A method based on DNA amplification and hybridisation for the rapid detection of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis was used to test 35 clinical specimens (sputum, gastric …

A 383bp segment of the gene coding for the 65kD mycobacterial antigens from
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium …

Active tuberculosis is highly prevalent in the geriatric population. The clinical syndromes and
diagnostic indications of the different forms of tuberculosis are described. Reactivation …

Histopathological and mycobacteriological examinations have limited utility in the diagnosis
of genital tuberculosis. In this double-blind study, 61 samples, consisting of endometrial …

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to identify mycobacterial DNA sequences in
uncultured clinical specimens. Two oligonucleotide primers derived from the sequence of a …

In recent work, a species-specific Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA fragment was cloned
and sequenced. On the basis of its nucleotide sequence, two oligonucleotides were …

Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA), an isothermal amplification technique
for nucleic acids (NA), was investigated for the species-specific identification of …