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Identification of Mycobacterium Species by DNA Microarray Chip Method
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Multiple samples improve the sensitivity for detection of mixed Mycobacterium infections
Ying Peng1, Chongguang Yang, Xia Li
1Tuberculosis Control Center of Heilongjiang Province, No. 40, Youfang Street, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150030, PR China.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|July 11, 2013
Abstract:
By using VNTR genotyping, mixed infections of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were detected in 11.2% of cases in a prospective study in Heilongjiang China, a setting with a high prevalence (87.5%) of Beijing family strains. If only one sputum sample had been collected, the study would have underestimated the fraction of mixed infections by 50%.
