What is the average bacterial load of M. tuberculosis in the saliva of an actively-infected patient?

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I'm trying to validate a real-time PCR assay for TB in non-human primates. I need a reference concentration to prepare positive samples (using spiked negative samples).

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That bacteria is an airborne!!!!

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