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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2009

Direct detection of mycobacterial species in pulmonary specimens by two rapid amplification tests, the gen-probe amplified mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test and the genotype mycobacteria direct test.

H Syre, V P Myneedu, V K Arora, H M S Grewal

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

H SyreThe Gade Institute, Section of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Bergen, N-5021 Bergen, Norway. Heidi.Syre@gades.uib.no
V P Myneedu
V K Arora
H M S Grewal
LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases · INHaukeland University Hospital · NOUniversity of Bergen · NO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid amplification tests have improved tuberculosis diagnostics considerably. This study evaluates a new amplification test, the GenoType Mycobacteria Direct (GTMD) test, for detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium kansasii, and Mycobacterium malmoense directly in 61 sputum samples. Thirty (49.2%) samples were auramine smear positive, and 31 (50.8%) were smear negative. The GTMD results were compared to the Gen-Probe Amplified M. tuberculosis Direct (MTD) test results, using culturing and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene as reference methods. The GTMD test could identify 28 of 29 samples containing the M. tuberculosis complex and was negative in a sputum sample containing M. intracellulare. The overall sensitivity and specificity results were 93.3% and 90.0% for the GTMD test, respectively, and 93.1% and 93.5% for the MTD test, respectively. The GTMD test is rapid and can be easily included in routine clinical laboratories for the direct detection of the M. tuberculosis complex in smear-positive sputum samples as an adjunct to microscopy and culture. Further studies are needed to evaluate the performance of the GTMD test for the detection of atypical mycobacteria.

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AdultBacteriological TechniquesFemaleHumansMaleMicroscopyMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesMycobacteriumNucleic Acid Amplification TechniquesRNA, BacterialRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSensitivity and SpecificitySequence Analysis, DNASputumTime FactorsTuberculosis, PulmonaryRNA, BacterialRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID19794042
PMCPMC2772619
OpenAlexW2074808490

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