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Detection of M. tuberculosis complex DNA in a lesion resembling sarcoidosis
E Baselga1, M A Barnadas, N Margall
1Department of Dermatology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
We describe a tuberculin test (PPD) negative patient with a chronic cutaneous lesion with histological features resembling sarcoidosis, in whom M. tuberculosis complex DNA was detected in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The lesion cleared with antituberculous treatment.