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Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Abstract:
Clinical laboratory identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) has been facilitated in recent years by new DNA and RNA amplification tests (1-4). However, drug susceptibility testing of slowly-growing mycobacteria remains time-consuming and costly, and the need for more rapid tests remains acute (5).
