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A pilot study of short-duration sputum pretreatment procedures for optimizing smear microscopy for tuberculosis.
Daley P, Michael JS, S K, Latha A, Mathai D, John KR, Pai M. Daley P, et al. Among authors: s k. PLoS One. 2009 May 20;4(5):e5626. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005626. PLoS One. 2009. PMID: 19461963 Free PMC article.
METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS: Blinded laboratory comparison of bleach and universal sediment processing (USP) pretreated centrifuged auramine smears to direct Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) and direct auramine smears and to solid (Loweinstein-Jensen (LJ)) and liquid (BACTEC 460) culture. 178 …
METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS: Blinded laboratory comparison of bleach and universal sediment processing (USP) pretreated centrifuged auramine smears …