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SUBMITTER: Jain P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3318544 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jain Paras P Hartman Travis E TE Eisenberg Nell N O'Donnell Max R MR Kriakov Jordan J Govender Karnishree K Makume Mantha M Thaler David S DS Hatfull Graham F GF Sturm A Willem AW Larsen Michelle H MH Moodley Preshnie P Jacobs William R WR
Journal of clinical microbiology 20120125 4
The difficulty of diagnosing active tuberculosis (TB) and lack of rapid drug susceptibility testing (DST) at the point of care remain critical obstacles to TB control. This report describes a high-intensity mycobacterium-specific-fluorophage (φ(2)GFP10) that for the first time allows direct visualization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical sputum samples. Engineered features distinguishing φ(2)GFP10 from previous reporter phages include an improved vector backbone with increased cloning ca ...[more]