Rapid, low-technology MIC determination with clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by using the microplate Alamar Blue assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 362-366

  Franzblau, Scott G ^a   Witzig, Richard S ^b   Mclaughlin, James C ^c   Torres, Patricia ^d   Madico, Guillermo ^d   Hernandez, Antonio ^c   Degnan, Michelle T ^c   Cook, Mary B ^c   Quenzer, Virginia K ^c   Ferguson, Robert M ^e   Gilman, Robert H ^b,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^e Scientific Laboratory Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLORIMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031985277     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.2.362-366.1998     Document Type: Article

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