METHOD FOR DETECTING, IN A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE OF MYCOBACTERIA, AND IN PARTICULAR MYCOBACTERIA CHARACTERISTIC OF TUBERCULOSIS

摘要

The invention concerns a method for detecting the possible presence of bacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a biological sample, using real time PCR technique and comprising a step of amplifying with a pair of PCR primers and a pair of FRET probes the hsp 65 gene and detecting the emitted fluorescence.