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SUBMITTER: Pal D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5515423 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pal Dheeraj D Boby Nongthombam N Kumar Satish S Kaur Gurpreet G Ali Syed Atif SA Reboud Julien J Shrivastava Sameer S Gupta Praveen K PK Cooper Jonathan M JM Chaudhuri Pallab P
PloS one 20170718 7
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease, which, although affecting cattle primarily, has been associated with human infections, making its detection an important challenge. The existing gold standard diagnosis relies on the culture of bacteria which is a lengthy and costly process, taking up to 45 days. New technologies based on molecular diagnosis have been proposed, either through dip-stick, immunological assays, which have limited specificity, or using nucleic acid tests, which enable to identify ...[more]