Los métodos diagnósticos clásicos de tuberculosis (TB)
se basan en la utilización de baciloscopía y cultivo. La
identificación del agente etiológico desde la positivización del
cultivo requiere entre 10 y 15 días, mientras que el empleo
de la reacción en cadena de la polimerasa (PCR) disminuye
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ABSTRACT Introduction: Tuberculosis continues to be a public health priority. Indigenous peoples are vulnerable groups with cultural determinants that increase the risk of the disease. Objective: To determine molecular epidemiology and phenotypical features and of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates fr...
ABSTRACT GeneXpert is one of the recent technological instruments used to diagnose tuberculosis in a short span of time. In this study, the performance of GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) was compared with light-emitting diode Fluorescent Microscopy (LED-FM)...
Abstract DNA genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been widely applied in the understanding of disease transmission in many countries. The purpose of this study was to genotype the strains of M. tuberculosis isolated in patients with new tuberculosis (TB) cases in Minas Gerais, as well as to compa...
ABSTRACT Introduction: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis East African-Indian (EAI) spoligotyping family (belonging to lineage 1, Indo-Oceanic, defined by the region of deletion RD239) is distributed worldwide, but is more prevalent in Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa. Studies in Latin America have ra...
El análisis de las pruebas de tipificación y de la resistencia a fármacos antituberculosos de micobacterias aisladas de pacientes seropositivos al VIH, en la década de los noventas, mostró una proporción de micobacterias no tuberculosas de 23,6 por ciento y una resistencia primaria y adquirida a lo...
El estudio fue realizado para determinar la prevalencia de tuberculosis bovina en la provincia Ichilo del departamento de Santa Cruz, se muestrearon al azar 464 bovinos mayores de 8 meses, tomando en cuenta el canton, categoria y raza; a los cuales se realizo pruebas tuberculinicas, cervical simple a a l...
