The acceptance of rRNA sequence diversity as a criterion for phylogenetic discrimination
heralds the transition from microbiological identification methods based on phenotypic …

Although the diagnosis of mycobacteriosis and susceptibility testing are still primarily based
on conventional methods (staining, culture, biochemical analysis, proportional method), a …

New and advanced methods of molecular diagnostics are changing the way we practice
clinical microbiology, which affects the practice of medicine. Signal amplification and real …

ABSTRACT The MB/BacT ALERT 3D System (MB/BacT)(Organon Teknika, Boxtel, The
Netherlands) is a fully automated, nonradiometric system with a revised antibiotic …

We assessed the capacity of two liquid-medium culture methods with automated incubation
and reading systems (MB/BacT ALERT 3D System and BACTEC MGIT 960 System) and one …

ABSTRACT A real-time PCR assay using the LightCycler (LC) instrument for the specific
identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB) was employed to detect …

A rapid and sensitive strategy for the specific identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(TB) was designed and evaluated using crude mycobacterial lysates. The speed of real-time …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide. The
burden of TB is alarmingly high in developing countries, where diagnosis latent TB infection …

ABSTRACT The new INNO-LiPA Mycobacteria (Innogenetics, Ghent, Belgium), a reverse-
hybridization-based line probe assay, and the AccuProbe assay (Gen-Probe Inc., San …

ABSTRACT The LiPA MYCOBACTERIA (Innogenetics NV, Ghent, Belgium) assay was used
to identify mycobacterial isolates using culture fluid from positive BACTEC 12B bottles. The …