Tuberculosis diagnosis after bleach processing for early stage tuberculosis laboratory capacity building [Short communication]
Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) sequencing; rpoB; sodium hypochlorite; sputum smear microscopy
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA, IP), Lisbon, Portugal 2: Cumura Hospital, Cumura, Republic of Guinea-Bissau 3: Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Amadora, Portugal 4: Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal 5: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil 6: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil 7: Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Publication date: 01 November 2012
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