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| Silva,Fernanda Schaefer Borges da; Castilho,Aline Lemes; Maltempe,Flaviane Granero; Pina,Rosangela Zampieri; Takao,Elisa Keiko Hirayama; Siqueira,Vera Lúcia Dias; Cardoso,Rosilene Fressatti; Caleffi-Ferracioli,Katiany Rizzieri. |
| Culturing is the gold standard method for confirming a diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). The Brazilian Ministry of Health recently proposed the use of the Ogawa-Kudoh method for sputa cultures to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate 8 years of using the Ogawa-Kudoh method in a TB reference laboratory in northwestern Paraná, Brazil. The present study consisted of a retrospective analysis of sputa cultures records for the detection of mycobacteria using the Ogawa-Kudoh method in the Laboratory of Medical Bacteriology, Laboratory of Teaching and Research in Clinical Analysis (LEPAC), State University of Maringá, from July 2003 to September 2011. The following variables were analyzed: Ziehl Neelsen (Z-N) smears and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mycobacterium tuberculosis/detection; Ogawa-Kudoh method/evaluation; Tuberculosis/diagnosis. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502013000300018 |
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