Comparison between the BACTEC MGIT 960 system and the agar proportion method for susceptibility testing of multidrug resistant tuberculosis strains in a high burden setting of South Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Said, Halima M ^a   Kock, Marleen M ^a,b   Ismail, Nazir A ^a,b   Baba, Kamaldeen ^a,b   Omar, Shaheed V ^a   Osman, Ayman G ^a   Hoosen, Anwar A ^a,b   Ehlers, Marthie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

BACTEC MGIT 960; MDR TB; TB; XDR TB

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGAR PROPORTION METHOD; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84871382662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-369     Document Type: Article

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