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Archives 2005
Myanmar Health Sciences Research Journal
Volume 17, Number 1
TITLE: In-house ELISA for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis.
AUTHOR: Khin Nwe Oo; Nwe Nwe Yin; Htwe Htwe Sein; Myat Thida; Wah Wah Aung
SOURCE: Myanmar Health Sciences Research Journal. 2005; 17(1): 51-52
ABSTRACT: There are no conventional methods for diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis. Children can not cough out sputa and thus sputum for smear and culture methods are not useful for them. Tuberculin skin tests may give false positive results in children who were immunized with BCG. Chest X- ray may give mimic results with other lung disorders. A rapid and reliable test for diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis would have great applicability as a clinical tool. Therefore, use of whole cell soluble Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen ELISA (in-house test) as a serodiagnostic test for childhood tuberculosis was studied.
SUBJECT HEADINGS: Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay. Tuberculosis.
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