Drug susceptibility
Evolution of In vitro Drug Susceptibility Testing of Pyrazinamide
... Based on previous studies which revealed the fact that PZA was active on Mycobacterium tuberculosis three acidic solid medium for drug susceptibility testing of PZA were conventionally being used. Steeken ...
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Evaluation of microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for diagnosis of multidrug resistant Tuberculosis in Viet Nam
... and drug susceptibility testing (DST) ...performing drug susceptibility testing (DST), only half participated in exter- nal quality assurance ...
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DETERMINATION OF DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERN AGAINST NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION
... antimicrobial susceptibility against hospital-associated infecting ...Antimicrobial susceptibility assay was performed by the reference criteria of clinical and laboratory standard institute ...antibiotic ...
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IDENTIFICATION OF MULTI DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS AMONG HIV/AIDS PATIENTS BY BACTEC CULTURE METHOD.
... Three sputum samples were taken for testing using a specific sampling technique called “spot early morning spot” according to RNTCP (Revised National TB Control Programme} guidelines, i.e. First sputum sample collected ...
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Profile of Trypanosoma cruzi Strains Belonging to
... difference in drug susceptibility between parasitic stages is probably in part related to the host cell,. 180[r] ...
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Minute-Level Speed Identification and Assessment of Bacteria/Cells Using Electrokinetic Assistance
... of drug susceptibility on cancer ...the drug susceptibility of cancer ...the drug susceptibility of cancer ...different drug-treated cancer cells was successfully ...
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Validation of the GenoType®MTBDRplus assay for diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in South Vietnam
... DRS: drug resistance survey; DST: drug susceptibility testing; FIND: Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics; INH: isoniazid; IUATLD: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; LJ: ...
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Mali: a case report
... extensively drug resistance; WHO: World Health Organization; DST: drug susceptibility testing; RR: resistance to rifampicin; UCRC: University Clinical Research Center; BSL-3: biosafety level 3; UTH: ...
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Epidemiological trends and outcomes of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Shandong, China
... DR-TB: Drug-resistant tuberculosis; DST: Drug susceptibility testing; FEV1: Forced expired volume in 1 s; FVC: Forced vital capacity; GOLD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease; ...
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Drug-resistant tuberculosis and advances in the treatment of childhood tuberculosis
... of drug- susceptible TB, then WHO recommends that they be given preventive treatment without the need for TST or IGRA testing ...both drug-susceptible (DS) [22] and drug-resistant (DR) TB disease ...
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Update on tuberculosis: TB in the early 21st century
... of drug susceptibility testing in regions where it is most needed ...where drug-resistant TB is concentrated, drug suscept- ibility testing is often not ...
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Sequence Based Identification of Aerobic Actinomycetes
... (38), N. uniformis (11), N. crassostreae (6), N. salmonicida (10), N. africana (9), and N. flavorosea (4). The present study iden- tified one clinical strain of N. paucivorans. It had a unique PRA pattern among the N. ...
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Complementary Assays Reveal a Low Level of CA Associated with Viral Complexes in the Nuclei of HIV-1-Infected Cells
... of drug susceptibility is several hours past when uncoating is observed in the CsA washout assay, we hypoth- esized that some molecules of CA remain present in the viral com- plex after uncoating and ...
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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
... of drug-resistant TB has markedly improved patient management with decreased result turnaround times (TATs) for ...phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST), considered to be the gold standard for ...
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Evaluation of Methods for Testing the Susceptibility of Clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates to Pyrazinamide
... for susceptibility testing ...its susceptibility to PZA on solid media (6). Drug susceptibility testing in liquid media is costly, especially in some re- gions that do not have enough economic ...
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Functional Correlates of Insertion Mutations in the Protease Gene of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Isolates from Patients
... during drug treatment (3, 15, 23, ...under drug pressure ...including drug susceptibility assays, kinetics of viral antigen production, and competitive replication ...
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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
... vitro drug suscep- tibility testing, Karin van Breda for anti-malarial drug analysis and Dr Ivor Harris for microscopy quality ...vitro drug susceptibility testing and anti-malarial ...
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Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Multidrug Resistance Testing by Direct Sputum Culture in Selective Broth without Decontamination or Centrifugation
... was defined by the presence of any M. tuberculosis growth in the isoniazid- and rifampin-containing culture. On day 15, all MDR testing wells were read regard- less of the level of growth in the detection wells. A ...
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Rapid identification of extensively and extremely drug resistant tuberculosis from multidrug resistant strains; using PCR-RFLP and PCR-SSCP.
... (10). Drug susceptibility tests against isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RF), streptomycin (SM), ethambutol (ETB) were performed by the proportional method on Löwenstein-Jensen media at a concentration of ...
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THE USE OF SNPS IN PHARMACOGENOMICS STUDIES
... be susceptibility SNPs, most are located in the vast noncoding DNA regions between genes and play no obvious role in drug ...a susceptibility gene without any a priori assumptions about what or where ...
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