Transrenal Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in pulmonary tuberculosis patients during the first 14 days of treatment

ABSTRACT We assessed the performance of a novel real-time PCR-based transrenal DNA (trDNA) assay for the specific detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a candidate marker of the early anti-tuberculosis therapy response. The study was performed on 288 urine samples from 72 tuberculosis patients...

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Main Authors: Irina Kontsevaya, Jan Heyckendorf, Frauke Koops, Doris Hillemann, Torsten Goldmann, Caryn M. Upton, Veronique De Jager, Andreas Diacon, Christoph Lange
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02348-23