| dc.contributor |
Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. |
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| dc.creator |
Palomino, J C |
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| dc.creator |
Martin, A |
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| dc.creator |
Von Groll, A |
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| dc.creator |
Portaels, F |
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| dc.date |
2008-10 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2017-01-31T07:12:38Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2017-01-31T07:12:38Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Rapid culture-based methods for drug-resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 2008, 75 (2):161-6 J. Microbiol. Methods |
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| dc.identifier |
0167-7012 |
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| dc.identifier |
18627779 |
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| dc.identifier |
10.1016/j.mimet.2008.06.015 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10144/39615 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/handle/10144/39615 |
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| dc.identifier |
Journal of Microbiological Methods |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10144/39615 |
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| dc.description |
Tuberculosis still represents a major public health problem, especially in low-resource countries where the burden of the disease is more important. Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug drug-resistant tuberculosis constitute serious problems for the efficient control of the disease stressing the need to investigate resistance to first- and second-line drugs. Conventional methods for detecting drug-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis are slow and cumbersome. The most commonly used proportion method on Löwenstein-Jensen medium or Middlebrook agar requires a minimum of 3-4 weeks to produce results. Several new approaches have been proposed in the last years for the rapid and timely detection of drug-resistance in tuberculosis. This review will address phenotypic culture-based methods for rapid drug susceptibility testing in M. tuberculosis. |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Elsevier |
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| dc.relation |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01677012. |
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| dc.rights |
Archived with kind thanks to Elsevier, copyright 2008. |
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| dc.title |
Rapid culture-based methods for drug-resistance detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
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