… Michel Drancourt and Didier Raoult are coinventors of pending patents on the culture
and subculture of M. tuberculosis, and Didier Raoult is coinventor of a pending patent on the …

… Random forest analysis of mass spectra has facilitated the accurate classification of all 16
strains into M. tuberculosis or nontuberculosis groups. Although the error rate of the strain …

… available, especially for fastidious bacteria such as M. tuberculosis 42 . The application of …
that are known to be associated with M. tuberculosis resistance to antituberculous compounds. …

… aureus organisms differed in the mass range of m/z 500–3500 Da [29, 30], and spectral …
coli organisms displaying an m/z 29,000 peak that has been confirmed to be a β-lactamase. …

… The median age of patients was 52 years (ranging from 18 to 88 years) with a M/F sex ratio
of 1.1. 57.5% of these patients had at least one chronic condition known to be a risk factor for …

… Next, 200 μl of 4 M guanidine thiocyanate was added to each tube, left for an hour at room
temperature, and then heated at 100C for 10 min with 50 μl of 0.5 M NaOH. Extraction of …

… Their sex ratio (M/F) and mean age were 0.68 and 47.9 ± 17.5 years old, respectively. Of
the 21 PVirO patients for whom specimens were available after day 10, 20 had negative viral …

… This structure is consistent with the finding that Mimivirus is not filterable through 0.2-m pore
size filters. No envelope was observed, but 80-nm fibrils attached to the capsid were visible (…

… The pH of the medium was adjusted to 7.5 with 10 M KOH before the medium was autoclaved,
boiled under a stream of O2-free N2 gas and then allowed to cool to room temperature. …

Comparison of the sequences of conserved genes, most commonly those encoding 16S
rRNA, is used for bacterial genotypic identification. Among some taxa, such as the …