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Molecular assay reagents intended to identify species of Mycobacterium, a genus of slow-growing bacteria of the family Mycobacteriaceae, by detecting specific genetic information of the nucleic acid of the target bacteria. Mycobacteria are etiologic agents of several diseases and include the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae, which cause human tuberculosis and leprosy respectively; other species may cause human infections, including lymphadenitis in children and systemic illness in immunocompromised people (e.g., AIDS patients).
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