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Mycobacterial Load Assay

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Diagnostic Bacteriology

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1616))

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Tuberculosis is a difficult disease to treat, a process made more harder as tools to monitor treatment response only provide a result long after the patient has provided a sample. The mycobacterial load assay (MBLA) provides a simple molecular test to quantify and determine the viability of M. tuberculosis in human or other samples.

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  1. School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9AJ, UK

    Stephen H. Gillespie, Wilber Sabiiti & Katarina Oravcova

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Correspondence to Stephen H. Gillespie .

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  1. Germantown, Maryland, USA

    Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly

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Gillespie, S.H., Sabiiti, W., Oravcova, K. (2017). Mycobacterial Load Assay. In: Bishop-Lilly, K. (eds) Diagnostic Bacteriology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1616. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7037-7_5

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7037-7_5

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