Evaluation of a simple in-house test to presumptively differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from nontuberculous mycobacteria by detection of p-nitrobenzoic acid metabolites

• Main Authors: Wang G., Yu X., Liang Q., Chen S., Wilson S., Huang H.
• Other Authors: ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
• Format: Article
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: 4 aminobenzoic acid; 4-nitrobenzoic acid; nitrobenzoic acid derivative; atypical Mycobacterium; bacterium identification; biotransformation; economics; human; isolation and purification; liquid chromatography; metabolism; microbiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; procedures; sensitivity and specificity; spectrophotometry; tandem mass spectrometry; tuberculosis; 4-Aminobenzoic Acid; Bacterial Typing Techniques; Biotransformation; Chromatography, Liquid; Humans; Nitrobenzoates; Nontuberculous Mycobacteria; Sensitivity and Specificity; Spectrophotometry; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Tuberculosis
• Online Access: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161454
• Institution: National University of Singapore

10.1371/journal.pone.0080877