In search of rapid diagnosis and drug-resistance detection tools: Is the FASTPlaqueTB test the answer?

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 560-561

  Takiff, Howard ^a   Heifets, Leonid ^b  

^a Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG RESISTANCE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPUTUM;

BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0036635988     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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