The Value of Sputum Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Cystic Fibrosis Patients with Negative Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Sputum Culture
Seyed Hossein Mirlohi, Kambiz Eftekhari, Rohola Shirzadi, Abolfazl Fateh, Morteza Masoumi, Mohammadreza Modaresi
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2022-02
Abstract
PCR can be used as an alternative diagnostic method for NTM in CF patients with negative NTM sputum culture, always under clinical suspicion of the disease.
MeSH terms
- Sputum
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Cystic fibrosis
- Sputum culture
- Medicine
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Population
- Microbiology
- Internal medicine
- Mycobacterium