Abstract
Tuberculosis is a difficult disease to treat, a process made more harder as tools to monitor treatment response only provide a result long after the patient has provided a sample. The mycobacterial load assay (MBLA) provides a simple molecular test to quantify and determine the viability of M. tuberculosis in human or other samples.
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Gillespie, S.H., Sabiiti, W., Oravcova, K. (2017). Mycobacterial Load Assay. In: Bishop-Lilly, K. (eds) Diagnostic Bacteriology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1616. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7037-7_5
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