Rapid detection of laboratory cross-contamination with <it>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </it>using multispacer sequence typing
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The ability to culture <it>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </it>from clinical specimens serves as the gold standard for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. However, a number of false-positive diagnoses may be due to cross-contamina...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Microbiology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/9/47 |