Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell-free DNA to diagnose TB in pediatric and adult patients

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2021 May 1;25(5):403-405. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.21.0055.

Authors

N R Pollock¹, A T MacIntyre², T A Blauwkamp², L Blair², C Ho², R Calderon³, M F Franke⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children´s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
² Karius Inc, Redwood City, CA, USA.
³ Socios En Salud Sucursal Peru, Lima, Peru, Programa Acadêmico de Tuberculose, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Cell-Free Nucleic Acids*
Child
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
Diagnostic Tests, Routine
Humans
Mycobacterium tuberculosis* / genetics
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tuberculosis* / diagnosis

Substances

Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
DNA, Bacterial

Grants and funding

U19 AI109755/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States