Rapid diagnosis Of tuberculous meningitis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 40 (10) , 1617
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.40.10.1617
Abstract
Using a rapid and highly sensitive method for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we detected the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome in CSF of 5 of 6 patients with clinically diagnosed tuberculous meningitis. The genome was not present in CSF from 10 patients with other types of meningitis and 10 normal controls.Keywords
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