Microbiology 9th Edition by Laura Black, Jacquelyn Black

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Suppose you are a medical technician working in a hospital laboratory and you collected a sputum sample from a critically ill patient suspected of having tuberculosis. You, of course, go back to the lab and attempt to culture and identify this dangerous, fastidious, and slow-growing microorganism, a process that can take 8 weeks. However, a quick verification of the tuberculosis diagnosis is needed. Can you think of a possible method or technology that can help speed the process? If so, what is it and how does it work?