Progress in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis

doi:10.3877/cma.j.issn.2095-5820.2016.03.006

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Abstract:

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases in China. The atypical clinical manifestations of latent mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection and drug-resistant tuberculosis led to increased difficulty in TB prevention and treatment. Early and accurate diagnosis is the basis and prerequisite for the correct treatment of TB and is also an effective way to reduce transmission. With the rapid development of molecular biology and immunology, the time for MTB pathogen examination and drug sensitivity test has been greatly shortened. The clinical and laboratory diagnosis as well as the development of new diagnostic techniques of MTB are described below.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Molecular diagnostics, Immunological examination

Aijing Ma, Yanlin Zhao. Progress in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis[J]. Chinese Journal of Clinical Laboratory Management(Electronic Edition), 2016, 04(03): 153-158.

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