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. 2017:1616:89-105.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7037-7_5.

Mycobacterial Load Assay

Stephen H Gillespie  1 , Wilber Sabiiti  2 , Katarina Oravcova  2
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Mycobacterial Load Assay

Stephen H Gillespie et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2017.

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a difficult disease to treat, a process made more harder as tools to monitor treatment response only provide a result long after the patient has provided a sample. The mycobacterial load assay (MBLA) provides a simple molecular test to quantify and determine the viability of M. tuberculosis in human or other samples.

Keywords: Mycobacterial load assay (MBLA); Reverse transcriptase real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR); Ribosomal RNA (rRNA); Sputum.

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