Diagnostic methods

Contribution of conventional methods and PCR to the diagnosis of extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
Claudia Marcela Castro, Gloria Mercedes Puerto, Graciela Mejía, Maria Consuelo Garzón, Wellman Ribón.
Latency antigens as sensors of different stages of tuberculosis (TB)
Mónica Pontino, Virginia Meikle, Javier Jurado, Virginia Pasquínelli, Mónica Liste, Ángel Cataldi, Verónica García, Alicia Alito.
Pleural fluid adenosine deaminase activity for the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis
D'Alessandro Adriana, Fernández de Larrea Carlos, Orozco Loren, Bello Teresita, de Waard Jacobus H.
A simple algorithm based on the adenosine deaminase activity in cerebrospinal fluid for the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis in HIV positive patients
Alessandro Adriana, Orozco Loren, Bello Teresita, de Waard Jacobus.
Comparative performance of two in-house methods for drug resistance assessment in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
Agustina I. de la Iglesia, Emma J. Stella and Héctor R. Morbidoni.
Molecular markers of tuberculosis disease progression in patients with or without diabetes Mellitus Type 2
Benjamín Gandara, Noe Macias, Yolanda Garcia, Leonor Enciso, Ema Valenzuela, Nicolás Hernandez, Elisa Venegas, Carmen Serrano, Bruno Rivas, Gerardo Martinez, Martha Moran, Jesús Guerrrero, Antonio Enciso.
Usefulness of new methodologies for the rapid diagnosis of Tuberculosis
González-González Heleodora, García-Pérez Blanca Estela, De Paz Palacios Isidoro, González y Merchant Jorge, Salinas F., Ramírez-Casanova E., Cicero R., Luna-Herrera Julieta.
Contribution of spoligotyping to quality control in molecular biology procedures
Claudia Marcela Castro, Liliana Andrea González, Juan Carlos Rozo, Gloria Puerto, Wellman Ribón.
Utility of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) in extrapulmonary Tuberculosis diagnosis
Johanna Hernández, SI Cuervo, CA. Saavedra, P. Hidalgo, JC. Gomez, AJ. Narvaez, P. Reyes, SM. Gualtero and MI. Murcia.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA extraction from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues: a comparison of five different protocols
Soraya Salas R., Johana Hernández T., Angel Sanchez, Paulina Ojeda, Martha I Murcia.
Identification of genomic and lipidic markers for Mycobacterium colombiense differentiation from other MAC strains
John Emerson Leguizamón, Johanna Hernández, Martha Isabel Murcia and Carlos Yesid Soto.
Improving bovine tuberculosis diagnostic
Meikle Virginia, Cataldi Angel, Buddle Bryce M., Alito Alicia.
Antigenic analysis of mycobacterial purified protein derivatives (PPDS)
Andrea Gioffré, Virginia Meikle, Alicia Alito, Angel Cataldi and M. Isabel Romano.
Direct detection of rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by the nitrate reductase assay applied directly in sputum samples
Ferro Regina Silva, Shikama Maria de Lourdes, Villela Gleize, Sato Daisy Nakamura, Carmen Giampaglia, Carmen Saraiva, Martins Maria Conceição, Martin Anandi, Palomino Juan Carlos, Telles Maria Alice da Silva.
Cord formation: a good tool for presumptive identification of M. tuberculosis
Simeão Fernanda Cristina Santos, Oliveira Rosângela Siqueira, Chimara Erica, Ueki Suely Yoko Mizuka, Latrilha Fábio, Yamauchi Jonas, Telles Maria Alice Silva.