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1992 • 1,400 citations

Mycobacterium aviumComplex Infection in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

1991 • 944 citations

Detection and identification of mycobacteria by amplification of rRNA

1990 • 523 citations

Comparison of various repetitive DNA elements as genetic markers for strain differentiation and epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1993 • 488 citations

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1993 • 486 citations

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1990 • 437 citations

Insertion element IS986 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a useful tool for diagnosis and epidemiology of tuberculosis

1990 • 419 citations

Numerical Taxonomy of Mycobactin-Dependent Mycobacteria, Emended Description of Mycobacterium avium, and Description of Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium subsp. nov., Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis subsp. nov., and Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum subsp. nov.

1990 • 393 citations

Detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisin Sputum Samples Using a Polymerase Chain Reaction

1991 • 364 citations

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1992 • 355 citations

Large-scale use of polymerase chain reaction for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a routine mycobacteriology laboratory

1993 • 346 citations

Evaluation of the BACTEC radiometric method for recovery of mycobacteria and drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from acid-fast smear-positive specimens

1983 • 327 citations

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1987 • 322 citations

Diagnosis of tuberculosis by DNA amplification in clinical practice evaluation

1991 • 309 citations

Detection and identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum sediments by amplification of rRNA

1993 • 258 citations

Specific detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains by polymerase chain reaction

1990 • 233 citations

Proposal of Mycobacterium peregrinum sp. nov., nom. rev., and Elevation of Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. abscessus (Kubica et al.) to Species Status: Mycobacterium abscessus comb. nov.

1992 • 233 citations

Sputum Digestion and Decontamination with N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine-Sodium Hydroxide for Culture of Mycobacteria

1963 • 230 citations

Proposed Minimal Standards for the Genus Mycobacterium and for Description of New Slowly Growing Mycobacterium Species

1992 • 226 citations

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical samples by using polymerase chain reaction and a nonradioactive detection system

1992 • 222 citations

Identification of mycobacteria by high-performance liquid chromatography

1991 • 217 citations

Mycobacterial taxonomy

1994 • 204 citations

A more reliable PCR for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical samples

1994 • 201 citations

Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum by polymerase chain reaction and DNA hybridization

1993 • 183 citations

Differentiation of slowly growing Mycobacterium species, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, by gene amplification and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis

1992 • 167 citations

Evaluation of nonradioactive DNA probes for identification of mycobacteria

1992 • 163 citations

Identification of Mycobacterium species by using amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis

1993 • 150 citations

Evaluation of Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test and PCR for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens

1994 • 144 citations

Comparison of improved BACTEC and Lowenstein-Jensen media for culture of mycobacteria from clinical specimens

1990 • 143 citations

Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens by a target-amplified test system

1994 • 136 citations

Evaluation of acridinium-ester-labeled DNA probes for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex in culture

1991 • 130 citations

Nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) for the identification of mycobacteria

1993 • 124 citations

Evaluation of practical chromatographic procedures for identification of clinical isolates of mycobacteria

1991 • 122 citations

Tuberculosis Symposium: Emerging Problems and Promise

1993 • 121 citations

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1989 • 109 citations

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in the United States

1990 • 100 citations

Identification of various serovar strains of Mycobacterium avium complex by using DNA probes specific for Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium intracellulare

1990 • 96 citations

Early diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis by polymerase chain reaction

1995 • 96 citations

Phylogenetic analysis and identification of different serovars of Mycobacterium intracellulare at the molecular level

1990 • 96 citations

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

1990 • 90 citations

Identification of mycobacteria from animals by restriction enzyme analysis and direct DNA cycle sequencing of polymerase chain reaction-amplified 16S rRNA gene sequences

1993 • 82 citations

Mycobacterium xenopi, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Mycobacterium kansasii, and Other Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in an Area of Endemicity for AIDS

1992 • 80 citations

Separation of Mycobacterium bovis BCG from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis by using high-performance liquid chromatography of mycolic acids

1992 • 75 citations

Laboratory manual for acid-fast microscopy

1976 • 75 citations

Role of solid media when used in conjunction with the BACTEC system for mycobacterial isolation and identification

1991 • 74 citations

Phylogenetic analysis and identification of different serovars of at the molecular level

1990 • 68 citations

Mycobacterium smegmatis strain for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by PCR used as internal control for inhibition of amplification and for quantification of bacteria

1994 • 57 citations

Pulmonary infections caused by less frequently encountered slow-growing environmental mycobacteria

1994 • 49 citations

Comparison of the Septi-Chek AFB and BACTEC systems and conventional culture for recovery of mycobacteria

1993 • 48 citations

A Review of the Methods of Identification and Differentiation of Mycobacteria

1981 • 48 citations

Enzyme immunoassay for identification of heat-killed mycobacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complexes and derived from early cultures

1990 • 27 citations

Strains of Mycobacterium terrae complex which react with DNA probes for M. tuberculosis complex

1993 • 27 citations

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using monoclonal antibodies for identification of mycobacteria from early cultures

1991 • 24 citations

Pulmonary infections with atypical mycobacteria in the normal host

1993 • 23 citations

Routine identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates by automated hybridization

1994 • 17 citations

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1993 • 14 citations

Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains unidentified using the IS6110 probe can be detected by oligonucleotides derived from the Mt308 sequence

1995 • 11 citations

A biphasic system for primary isolation of mycobacteria compared to solid medium and broth culture

1992 • 8 citations