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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Diagnostic Bacteriology |
| Subtitle of host publication | Methods and Protocols |
| Editors | Kimberley A. Bishop-Lilly |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY |
| Publisher | Humana Press/Springer |
| Pages | 89-105 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781493970377 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781493970353 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Methods in Molecular Biology |
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| Volume | 1616 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1064-3745 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1940-6029 |
Keywords
- Mycobacterial load assay (MBLA)
- Sputum
- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
- Reverse transcriptase real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR)
Access to Document
- Methods_chapter_on_MBLA_accepted_version
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