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. 2008 Dec;46(12):4068-70.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01162-08. Epub 2008 Oct 8.

Association of tuberculous endometritis with infertility and other gynecological complaints of women in India

P Kumar  1 , N P Shah, A Singhal, D S Chauhan, V M Katoch, S Mittal, S Kumar, M K Singh, S Datta Gupta, H K Prasad
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Association of tuberculous endometritis with infertility and other gynecological complaints of women in India

P Kumar et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Dec.

Abstract

Endometrial biopsy samples derived from 393 patients with assorted gynecological complaints were investigated for mycobacterial infection. By employment of four different techniques, mycobacterial pathogens were detected irrespective of the nature/type of clinical complaint. Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the predominant pathogen detected among the samples investigated.

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N-PCR for detecting and differentiating M. tuberculosis and M. bovis in EB extracts. The ethidium bromide-stained amplification products of M. tuberculosis and M. bovis generated by using forward and reverse primers were electrophoresed on nondenaturing 10% polyacrylamide gels. The 116- and 89-bp products obtained from M. tuberculosis and M. bovis, respectively, are indicated. A sample with dual infection is shown (lane 14). Lanes: 1, sample EB7; 2, EB17; 3, EB26; 4 and 13, M. tuberculosis-positive controls; 5 and 12, 100-bp molecular weight markers; 6 and 11, M. bovis-positive controls, 7, EB40; 8, EB83; 9, EB55; 10, negative control; 14, EB34.
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