You Want to Identify Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in a Patient Sputum

question 18

Multiple Choice

You want to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a patient sputum sample.Which procedure would be most useful in this case?

• A)Whole genome sequencing
• B)Polymerase chain reaction
• C)DNA probe analysis
• D)Microarray analysis

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