… The mycobacterial load assay (MBLA) is a culture-free biomarker that aims at providing …
viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patient sputum. The assay monitors the molecular load of M…

… Three aliquots of each dilution were used in each of the 5-mycobacterial load determination
assays as described in the methods section. PCR-polymerase chain reaction, MGIT …

… been proposed to describe the decline in bacterial load over the first 2 months of treatment,
… MBL assay-determined bacterial load in this study with the decline of bacterial load reported …

… Effective methods to detect viable Mycobacterium … We applied culture and the novel molecular
bacterial load assay (MBLA) … Compared to the bacterial loads of untreated controls, NALC-…

Molecular bacterial load assay (MBLA) rapidly quantifies viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb) and may be useful for monitoring treatment response and treatment efficacy. We …

… Here we show that the MBL assay can be utilised in the enumeration of bacterial load from
infected as well as from drug-treated animal tissues. We have utilised lung tissues from three …

… Molecular bacterial load assay, a culture-free biomarker for rapid and accurate quantification
of sputum Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillary load during treatment. Journal of Clinical …

… Next, we matched the results of the AFB smear test and Mycobacterium culture with the
level of M. tuberculosis DNA load measured with the senX3-regX3 assay (either corrected or …

… load assay method, molecular expertise, and a well-equipped laboratory, tuberculosis
molecular bacterial load assay … , which usually involves culturing mycobacteria species on either …

… and not all viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacilli are detected.5 6 Alternative more
rapid methods include mycobacterial DNA-detection assays but prolonged DNA survival in …