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Alle Oberthemen / Biology / Microbiology / Bac. Resp. Infections: Actinomycetes and Mycobacteria
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What are the tools used for diagnosis?
Stethescope
CXR


AFB (Acid Fast Bacilli) stain and LM can be used to diagnose. But this requires training, and even in the best cases can be non-specific.
- This also requires cultures, which in the US require stringent safety methods

Tuberculin Skin Testing - test for LATENT infection. threshold depends on the pt. If HIV / immunesupressed, threshold is lower.

Quantiferon-Gold. Use IELISA to see how much IFN-##\gamma#

ELISPOT-TB. newset one
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Autor: yaoyu
Oberthema: Biology
Thema: Microbiology
Veröffentlicht: 11.02.2010

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