Early Detection of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis with the Gen‐Probe Nucleic Acid Amplification Assay: Utility in an Inner City Hospital
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- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 35 (3) , 339-342
- https://doi.org/10.1086/341494
Abstract
Central nervous system tuberculosis is a serious clinical problem, the treatment of which is sometimes hampered by delayed diagnosis. We investigated the utility of the Gen-Probe nucleic acid amplification assay for the rapid diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis and as a noninvasive method of identifying intracranial tuberculoma.Keywords
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