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Article: Commercial Tests Differ in Ability to Diagnose Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- December 26, 2000
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2000 DEC 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Bell-Nichols, staff medical writer -- Diagnostic tests differ in their ability to diagnose tuberculosis of the lungs, a new study indicates.
The study, published in the American Journal Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, found that several well-known diagnostic tests commonly used in the clinical environment vary in their abilities to differentiate among strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the microbe that causes TB.
K. Alzahrani et al., of the Montreal Chest Institute in Canada, related how the study was carried out: "The yield and clinical utility of a combination of diagnostic tests were ...