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The Composition of Clinical Specimens
MTB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis; SP, sputum; BW, bronchial washing.
*Blood, body fluid, urine and tissue.
†5 MTB PCR results show complete concordant results; in-house PCR protocol, the COBAS Amplicor MTB, the COBAS TaqMan MTB, the AdvanSure TB/NTM real-time PCR, the Real-Q M. tuberculosis kit.
