Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene test

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a long in vitro culture cycle and the positive detection rate is not high. Therefore, it has brought some difficulties to early clinical diagnosis and determination of drug treatment. The application of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to detect mycobacterium tuberculosis can Greatly provide the detection rate and detection specificity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is beneficial to clinical even treatment. Specimens were collected from patients' sputum, bronchial secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial effusion, pleural effusion, and pleural and ascites fluids.

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