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SUBMITTER: Costa-Lima JFD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523525 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 20200925
<h4>Introduction</h4>Laboratory and clinical features of childhood tuberculosis (TB) are non-specific and establishing an accurate diagnosis remains a challenge. This study evaluated a Single tube nested-PCR (STNPCR) to detect genomic DNA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in blood and urine.<h4>Methods</h4>Biological samples were obtained from children (<15 years old) with clinical suspicion of pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB at public hospitals in Recife-Pernambuco, Brazil. Cultures yielded ...[more]