ARTICLE | Clinical News
Amplified mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test data
January 17, 1994 8:00 AM UTC
A report in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology shows that the San Diego company's MTD test, and a PCR amplification of DNA, gave similar sensitivities to the standard MB-Check culture assay to detect the microbes.
The Gen-Probe test and PCR both provided much more rapid results, in hours rather than weeks. ...