Evaluation of nonradioactive DNA probes for identification of mycobacteria.

摘要: Commercial chemiluminescent DNA probes (Accuprobe; Gen-Probe, San Diego, Calif.) for the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex, M. avium complex (MAC), gordonae, and kansasii were evaluated with 134 clinical isolates. These included 36 MTB 40 MAC, 27 9 kansasii, 22 spp. The specificity was 100% four probes. sensitivity gordonae 95.2% MAC probe. Five nine isolates tested not detected