drug susceptibility testing
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 before ...
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Drug susceptibility testing for optimising tuberculosis treatment
... agar-based testing methods are considered less reliable. 23 Susceptibility testing on solid Löwenstein-Jensen media is acceptable according to some experts, 3 but is not used for drug ...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of a Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing Method for the Antituberculosis Drug Ethambutol: a Systematic Review and Meta Analysis
... antituberculosis drug; however, drug resistance to EMB has been ...Molecular drug susceptibility testing (DST), based on the embB gene, has recently been used for rapid identification ...
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NON-COMMERCIAL CULTURE AND DRUG-SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING METHODS FOR SCREENING OF PATIENTS AT RISK OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS
... for drug susceptibility testing (DST) is crucial due to increasing rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) worldwide and the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis ...
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Quantitative Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Use of MGIT 960 and EpiCenter Instrumentation
... of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are on the rise, the simple classification into “susceptible” and “resistant” strains based on susceptibility testing at “critical concentrations” ...
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Performance of Tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility Testing in U S Laboratories from 1994 to 2008
... DISCUSSION The results of this analysis, though from a nonrandom sample, include those of most U.S. laboratories (explained earlier) per- forming TB drug susceptibility testing. Overall, we observed ...
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In-vitro antimycobacterial drug susceptibility testing of non-tubercular mycobacteria by tetrazolium microplate assay
... therapeutic drug, anti mycobacterial susceptibility testing becomes a primary step for the management of the NTM ...lar drug susceptibility methods for Mycobacterium tubercu- losis ...
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CHECKLIST OF KEY ACTIONS FOR THE USE OF LIQUID MEDIA FOR CULTURE AND DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING (DST)
... AND DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING (DST) Rationale for liquid culture systems Laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) relies on the direct microscopic examination of sputum ...identify ...
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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
... anti-tuberculosis drug resis- tance surveillance which advised for routine DST of representative samples for categorization into MDR and XDR Tuberculosis ...[7], drug susceptibility testing is ...
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Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacteria Isolated from Humans and Cattle from Selected Sites of Ethiopia
... 2.3. Drug Susceptibility Testing Isolates that were frozen were thawed at room ...to drug containing and drug free L-J media in test ...
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Nitrate Reductase Assay Using Sodium Nitrate for Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Directly
... Traditional drug susceptibility testing is either time-consuming, such the proportion method on solid media, or expensive, such as the BACTEC 960 ...true drug resistance) and specificity ...
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Rapid, Efficient Detection and Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Sputum by Microscopic Observation of Broth Cultures
... and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) are crucial to the control of ...broth-drug susceptibility assay (MODS) detects early growth of MTB in liquid medium, allowing more ...
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Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex by Use of a High Throughput, Reproducible, Absolute Concentration Method
... in drug susceptibility testing of mycobacteria is important, in par- ticular when using the generally recommended proportion method, the actual inoculum size was determined for a random sample of 244 ...
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A Multilaboratory, Multicountry Study To Determine Bedaquiline MIC Quality Control Ranges for Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing
... standardized drug susceptibility testing (DST) methodologies and reference MIC quality control (QC) ranges for bedaquiline, a diarylquinoline antimycobacterial, used in the treatment of adults with ...
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Conventional and radiometric drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
... This observa- tion deserves further study, because it implies that the critical concentration of EB used in the standard PR method (Loewenstein-Jensen medi- um), cannot be equated to the[r] ...
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Evaluation of rapid radiometric method for drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... D); specificity, A/(A + B); predictive value (resist- ance), D/(B + D); predictive value (susceptibility), A/ (A + C), where A is when the test strain was found susceptible by both metho[r] ...
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Evaluation of direct drug susceptibility testing of blood culture isolates comparing it with conventional disk diffusion testing
... the susceptibility testing of Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi with standard disk diffusion ...in susceptibility results of cefoxitin for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...
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MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATION OF DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING RAPID, RELIABLE AND COST EFFECTIVE METHOD TO DETECT DRUG RESISTANCE TB
... 1,2 Shree Ramkrishna Institute of Computer Education and Applied Sciences, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat-395 001, Gujarat, India. ABSTRACT Introduction: About one third population of the world are infected ...
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Discordance across Several Methods for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in a Single Laboratory
... repeat testing due to contamina- ...repeat testing is required, the turnaround time doubles to 42 ...laboratory-specific drug pan- ...extremely drug- resistant isolates were subcultured on ...
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Early results of systematic drug susceptibility testing in pulmonary tuberculosis retreatment cases in Cameroon
... through drug vendors in the informal sec- ...and testing for HIV with consequent Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis is offered free-of-charge to all newly diagnosed ...
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