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. 2002 Oct;40(10):3887. doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.10.3887.2002

Failure of Commercial Ligase Chain Reaction To Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA in Sputum Samples from a Patient with Smear-Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Due to a Deletion of the Target Region

Christopher M Gilpin 1, David J Dawson 1, Gabrielle O'Kane 1, John G Armstrong 1, Christopher Coulter 1
PMCID: PMC130911

Volume 40, no. 6, p. 2305-2307, 2002. Page 2306, column 1, lines 46 and 47: The sequencing products were purified by sodium acetate-ethanol precipitation and not by Centricep columns.

Page 2306: The Acknowledgment section was inadvertently omitted and should appear as shown below.

Acknowledgments

We thank Shane Byrne from Queensland Health Scientific Services, Brisbane, Australia, for his assistance in generating the raw sequencing data.


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