… , Gram-negative bacteria other than H influenzae play at least an equally important role. …
Plates were examined for growth after 24 h and 48 h of incubation. For differentiation of …

Background . Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is challenging. The widely used
tuberculin skin test (TST) may produce -positive results because of cross-reactivity with …

Interspecific polymorphisms of the 16S rRNA gene (rDNA) are widely used for species
identification of mycobacteria. 16S rDNA sequences, however, do not vary greatly within a species…

A novel genus-specific PCR for mycobacteria with simple identification to the species level
by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) was established using the 16S-23S …

The diagnostic significance of procalcitonin concentrations in lower respiratory tract
infections and tuberculosis is not known. A prospective analysis was, therefore, performed in …

Conventional identification of Nocardia in the routine laboratory remains problematic due to
a paucity of reliable phenotypic tests and due to the yet-unresolved taxonomy of strains …

… Such an algorithm is optimal if the locally optimal solution of optd1 {H(d1)} yields the globally
optimal solution H∗. Suppose that the objective function h is (strongly) separable in the …

Moxifloxacin is the most active fluoroquinolone against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro.
However, data about the efficacy in patients are not available. We enrolled 17 patients with …

Severe tuberculosis (TB) requiring intensive care unit (ICU) care is rare but commonly known
to be of markedly bad prognosis. The present study aimed to describe this condition and to …

On the basis of previously published PCR primer sequences, we have designed a sensitive
system for detecting DNA of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB) in patient …