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  • Title: [Real-time polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis].
    Author: Salina TIu, Morozova TI.
    Journal: Probl Tuberk Bolezn Legk; 2008; (6):12-4. PubMed ID: 18710048.
    Abstract:
    To enhance the efficiency of diagnosis of oligo- and abacillar pulmonary tuberculosis and its differential diagnosis with other lung diseases, the authors studied the informative value of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) used in 62 patients with different clinical forms of tuberculosis and 108 differentially diagnostic patients. Real-time PCR has been ascertained to be a significantly more sensitive and highly specific tool in tuberculosis diagnosis, which considerably improves the specific recognition of the etiology of a pathogenetic process in oligo- and abacillar patients. Particularly encouraging results have been obtained when examining differentially diagnostic patients with the rounded shadows being formed in the lung.
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