Anti-TB Drug Susceptibility Testing
IDENTIFICATION OF MULTI DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS AMONG HIV/AIDS PATIENTS BY BACTEC CULTURE METHOD.
... of TB drug resistance, the presence of TB drug resistance, particularly Multiple Drug Resistance, is a growing concern ...multi drug resistant tuberculosis in HIV individuals ...
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Drug resistant tuberculosis in Central Mozambique: the role of a rapid genotypic susceptibility testing
... 155 TB patients confirmed by culture and Geno- type MTBDRplus were ...extra-pulmonary TB. TB/HIV coinfection was present in ...of anti-TB drugs, 4 (16 %) patients with MDR-TB had ...
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Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences
... full drug susceptibility profile would enable tailored treatment to improve efficacy and reduce expos- ure to ineffective toxic ...Current testing for resist- ance to most anti-TB drugs ...
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Evaluation of the GenoType MTBDRsl Version 2 0 Assay for Second Line Drug Resistance Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in South Africa
... on TB therapy, the HIV epidemic has seriously hampered TB management and severely affected treatment outcomes (8), while the TB-HIV coepidemic has fueled the escalation of both MDR-TB and ...
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Frequency and patterns of second-line resistance conferring mutations among MDR-TB isolates resistant to a second-line drug from eSwatini, Somalia and Uganda (2014–2016)
... Drug susceptibility testing (DST) was performed at the SRL in Kampala and repeated for second-line drug resist- ance at the Mycobacteriology (BSL-3) Laboratory, Maker- ere University College ...
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A Comparative Study of Drug Susceptibility Testing Techniques for Identification of Drug Resistant TB in a Tertiary Care Centre, South India
... Observation Drug Susceptibility) liquid system is prone to conta- mination ...line anti-tuberculosis drug (ofloxacin, capreomy- cin, kanamycin) using the combination method and were compared ...
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Rapid detection of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Sputum Samples by Direct Nitrate Reductase Assay Method
... of drug resistance in TB is necessary for effective treatment and to prevent transmission of the disease in the ...of drug resistant TB in resource-limited settings is indirect ...
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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
... accurate drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods for first-line and second-line anti-TB drugs is important to determine an effective treatment regimen and to decrease ...Various ...
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Comparison of line probe assay to BACTEC MGIT 960 system for susceptibility testing of first and second line anti tuberculosis drugs in a referral laboratory in South Africa
... second-line drug resistance, especially in suspected cases of ...low TB burden countries, such as Italy, is lower for both KAN (86% and 90%) and OFL (93% and 98%) resistance ...line testing, meaning ...
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Correlations between Gene Resistant Markers and Second Line Anti TB Drug Resistance in Pre XDR and XDR TB Patients
... Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a serious problem in public health and XDR-TB patients usually develop from multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and ...for ...
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Drug Susceptibility Patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Tuberculosis Patients in Coastal Kenya
... . Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance is an emerging health problem in Kenya and especially in Coastal ...determine drug susceptibility patterns of Mycobac- terium tuberculosis in Coastal ...
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Genomic characterization of MDR/XDR TB in Kazakhstan by a combination of high throughput methods predominantly shows the ongoing transmission of L2/Beijing 94–32 central Asian/Russian clusters
... regional TB dispensaries (Atyrau, Mangistau, Aktobe, Kostanay, Pavlodar, Semey, Kyzyl-Orda, Zhambyl, Taldykorgan and Almaty) and two prisons run by the State-established committee for the management of the ...
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Treatment outcomes of drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Morocco: multi centric prospective study
... resistant TB during the study were ...and drug susceptibility testing (DST) for first-line anti-TB drugs (rifampicin, isoniazid, streptomycin and ethambutol) and second-line ...
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Evolution of In vitro Drug Susceptibility Testing of Pyrazinamide
... important drug used in anti tubercular treatment which helps in killing old and semi dormant bacilli which are not metabolically ...active. Drug susceptibility tests are routinely performed ...
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Pyrazinamide resistance conferring mutations in pncA and the transmission of multidrug resistant TB in Georgia
... Drug susceptibility testing (DST) for PZA is not routinely used to guide (first and second line) anti-TB ...the susceptibility of TB bacteria to PZA are not always ...
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Pattern of tuberculosis among tribal population of Central India with special reference to cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test as diagnostic tool: a descriptive study at tertiary care hospital
... for TB hampers timely diagnosis and leads to continued disease transmission, causing significant morbidity and ...in TB and MDR-TB detection has been underutilized in our area due to lack of ...
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Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinins and Plasmodium vivax to chloroquine in Phuoc Chien Commune, Ninh Thuan Province, south central Vietnam
... of anti-malarial drug resistance to standard ...reduced susceptibility of artemisinins with indications of DHA–PPQ resist- ance in Binh Phuoc Province, recognized in 2015 ...artemisinin ...
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Rapid identification of extensively and extremely drug resistant tuberculosis from multidrug resistant strains; using PCR-RFLP and PCR-SSCP.
... PCR-SSCP and PCR-RFLP are rapid and simple techniques which can be used as an additional method to detect resistant cases, but these methods have their own limitations in action. Standardization of PCR- SSCP is difficult ...
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Epidemiology of anti tuberculosis drug resistance patterns and trends in tuberculosis referral hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... in drug resistance against all first-line drugs shows a significant ...of drug resistance among retreatment patients supports the idea of inefficiency in TB control programs and ir- regular/improper ...
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Early diagnosis and effective treatment regimens are the keys to tackle antimicrobial resistance in tuberculosis (TB): a report from Euroscicon’s international TB Summit 2016
... Mediastinal TB is a form of extrapulmonary TB that is often seen in paediatric, HIV-infected patients and adult immigrants in developed ...pulmonary TB in the UK has increased slightly in the past ...
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