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SUBMITTER: Mitarai S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3295174 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mitarai Satoshi S Kato Seiya S Ogata Hideo H Aono Akio A Chikamatsu Kinuyo K Mizuno Kazue K Toyota Emiko E Sejimo Akiko A Suzuki Katsuhiro K Yoshida Shiomi S Saito Takefumi T Moriya Ataru A Fujita Akira A Sato Shuko S Matsumoto Tomoshige T Ano Hiromi H Suetake Toshinori T Kondo Yuji Y Kirikae Teruo T Mori Toru T
Journal of clinical microbiology 20120111 3
We evaluated a new line probe assay (LiPA) kit to identify Mycobacterium species and to detect mutations related to drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A total of 554 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (n = 316), Mycobacterium avium (n = 71), Mycobacterium intracellulare (n = 51), Mycobacterium kansasii (n = 54), and other Mycobacterium species (n = 62) were tested with the LiPA kit in six hospitals. The LiPA kit was also used to directly test 163 sputum specimens. The re ...[more]