Research Article

A Rapid and Sensitive Diagnostic Screening Assay for Detection of Mycobacteria Including Mycobacterium tuberculosis Directly from Sputum without Extraction

Figure 1

Alignment of loci containing the targeted 53 bp repeat element within a fully sequenced M. tuberculosis genome (H37Rv) and primers used in the study (Mtb detect For and Mtb detect Rev). Sequence labels correspond to the published name of the locus and the repeat number at that locus.