Scale-up of diagnostics for multidrug resistant tuberculosis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 656-658

  Caws, Maxine ^a   Ha, Dang Thi Minh ^b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LETTER; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATION DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY ASSAY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER AGAR; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

EID: 77957118039     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70188-2     Document Type: Letter

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