Lowenstein Jensen
Performance of Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube BACTEC 960 with Lowenstein–Jensen method for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at Ethiopian National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... Background: Bacteriological confirmed active case detection remains the corner stone for diagnosing tuberculosis. Non-radiometric liquid culture system Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube with automated interface had ...
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Genotypic Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates for Amikacin and Kanamycin Resistance by Use of a Rapid Sloppy Molecular Beacon Based Assay Identifies More Cases of Low Level Drug Resistance than Phenotypic Lowenstein Jensen Testing
... including Lowenstein- Jensen (LJ) absolute concentration, mycobacterial growth indicator tubes (MGIT), and TREK Sensititre MycoTB MIC plate (MycoTB) ...
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... Comparison of the Lowenstein-Jensen Medium, the Middlebrook 7H10 Medium and MB/BacT for the Isolation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis MTB from Clinical Specimens.. ABSTRACT Introduction: T[r] ...
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Activities of Some New Pyrazoline Derivatives, Derived from Ethyl-2-(2, 3-Dichloroanilido) Acetohydrazide
... into Lowenstein Jensen egg medium having concentrations of 10 and 100 mg/mL and were inoculated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, H 27, Rv strains, incubated at 37°C and observed, the compound (6a, 6b, 6c, ...
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Meta Analysis of BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 TB, with or without Solid Media, for Detection of Mycobacteria
... 13. Idigoras, P., X. Beristain, A. Iturzaeta, D. Vicente, and E. Perez-Trallero. 2000. Comparison of the automated nonradiometric Bactec MGIT 960 sys- tem with Lowenstein-Jensen, Coletsos, and Middlebrook ...
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... Ziehl Neelsen’s ZN and Auramine Phenol AP staining, Lowenstein Jensen LJ medium culture, BacT/ALERT and nested Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR which targeted IS6110 were carried out on all[r] ...
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Comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility using solid and liquid culture in Nigeria
... Here we compared the DST results obtained when specimens were cultured using solid Lowenstein Jensen, LJ and an automated liquid culture media BACTEC Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube [r] ...
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Feasibility of establishing a biosafety level 3 tuberculosis culture laboratory of acceptable quality standards in a resource-limited setting: an experience from Uganda
... BSL-3: Biosafety Level 3; CAP: College of American Pathologists; DST: Drug susceptibility testing; EQA: External quality assessment; LJ: Lowenstein-Jensen; MDR: Multidrug resistant; MGIT[r] ...
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Comparison of a radiometric method (BACTEC) and conventional culture media for recovery of mycobacteria from smear negative specimens
... The BACTEC system and three conventional media Middlebrook 7H10, selective Middlebrook 7H11 [S7H11], and Lowenstein-Jensen [LJ] were compared for their mean recovery times and recovery r[r] ...
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EVALUATION OF MGIT OVER OTHER PHENOTYPIC METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF PULMONARY AND EXTRAPULMONARY TB AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN NORTH INDIA
... conventional Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) media and direct AFB smear examination in pulmonary and extra pulmonary tuberculosis specimens for isolation and drug sensitivity testing (DST) using solid (LJ) and ...
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Isolation of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Body Fluids and Comparison of Conventional Methods with Polymerase Chain Reaction in a Tertiary Care Hospital Chennai.
... Samples were subjected to standard methods of diagnosis by smear study fluorescence & Ziehl –Neelsen staining, culture on solid medium Lowenstein-Jensen & Liquid medium Kirchner’s and mo[r] ...
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Improved Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis From Children Using the Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Method
... and Lowenstein- Jensen ...versus Lowenstein-Jensen and (2) days required for positive culture result, stratified by specimen type and auramine stain ...
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Evaluation of a rapid radiometric differentiation test for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by selective inhibition with p nitro alpha acetylamino beta hydroxypropiophenone
... The other 199 cultures were reference strains belonging to 40 mycobacterial species, obtained from recognized reference culture collections and maintained on Lowenstein-Jensen medium at [r] ...
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A generalized Hyers Ulam stability of a Pexiderized logarithmic functional equation in restricted domains
... The Hyers-Ulam stability problems of functional equations go back to 1940 when Ulam proposed a question concerning the approximate homomorphisms from a group to a metric group (see [1]). A partial answer was given by ...
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Jensen-Type Inequalities for Invex Functions
... Jensen’s inequality for a real convex function f on a convex do- main is generalised in several ways to vector functions with a cone inequality, and to invex functions generalizing conve[r] ...
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Sharp bounds for the Jensen divergence with applications
... the Jensen divergence generated by different classes of functions including functions of bounded variation, absolutely continuous, Lipschitz continuous, convex functions and differentiable functions whose ...
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Some new estimates of the ‘Jensen gap’
... holds. This inequality can be traced back to Jensen’s original papers [, ] and is one of the most fundamental mathematical inequalities. One reason for that is that in fact a great number of classical inequalities can ...
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On the refinements of the integral Jensen Steffensen inequality
... In this paper, we present integral versions of some recently proved results which refine the Jensen-Steffensen inequality. We prove the n-exponential convexity and log-convexity of the functions associated with the ...
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Fast Depth-Based Subgraph Kernels for Unattributed Graphs
... In this paper, we investigate two fast subgraph kernels based on a depth-based representation of graph-structure. Both methods gauge depth information through a family of K-layer expansion subgraphs rooted at a vertex ...
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How sharp is the Jensen inequality?
... Estimates have been derived for both, smooth and Lipschitz continuous convex ϕ. They depend, respectively, on the uniform norm of the ϕ and on the Lipschitz constant of ϕ , as well as on the L and L norms of the ...
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