Nitrate reductase assay for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Simple and inexpensive method for low-resource laboratories

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 861-863

  Lemus, Dihadenys ^a   Montoro, Ernesto ^a   Echemendía, Miguel ^a   Martin, Anandi ^b   Portaels, Françoise ^b   Palomino, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; NITRATE REDUCTASE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; ENZYME ASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COLORIMETRY; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITES; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 33745665817     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46540-0     Document Type: Article

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