The use of microbead-based spoligotyping for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to evaluate the quality of the conventional method: providing guidelines for Quality Assurance when working on membranes.
Abadia E, Zhang J, Ritacco V, Kremer K, Ruimy R, Rigouts L, Gomes HM, Elias AR, Fauville-Dufaux M, Stoffels K, Rasolofo-Razanamparany V, Garcia de Viedma D, Herranz M, Al-Hajoj S, Rastogi N, Garzelli C, Tortoli E, Suffys PN, van Soolingen D, Refrégier G, Sola C.
Abadia E, et al. Among authors: zhang j.
BMC Infect Dis. 2011 Apr 28;11:110. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-110.
BMC Infect Dis. 2011.
PMID: 21527037
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Last, the performance of the microbead-based method was excellent as previously shown by Cowan et al. (J. Clin. Microbiol. 2004) and Zhang et al. (J. Med. Microbiol. 2009) and demonstrated the proper detection of spacer 15 that is known to occasionally give w …
Last, the performance of the microbead-based method was excellent as previously shown by Cowan et al. (J. Clin. Microbiol. 2004) and …