MGIT 960
Multicenter Laboratory Validation of the BACTEC MGIT 960 Technique for Testing Susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Classical Second Line Drugs and Newer Antimicrobials
... BACTEC MGIT 960 growth supplement for DST was used in the MGIT 960 instrument (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Systems, Sparks, ...in MGIT 960 was strictly followed as recommended ...
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Rapid and Reliable Method for Quantification of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis by Use of the BACTEC MGIT 960 System
... BACTEC MGIT (mycobacterial growth indicator tube) 960 system (9, 15, 20), designed for the detec- tion of mycobacterial species commonly found in human clin- ical samples (5, 15, ...called MGIT ...
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Testing of Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Pyrazinamide with the Nonradiometric BACTEC MGIT 960 System
... BACTEC MGIT 960 pyrazinamide (PZA) kit (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Sparks, ...BACTEC MGIT 960 system (Becton Dickinson) were compared with those obtained with the BACTEC 460TB ...
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Evaluation of Capilia TB assay for rapid identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 9120 blood cultures
... Capilia TB assay is an immunochromatographic method that detects MPB64 protein secreted from MTC bacilli into the culture medium [12]. Originally found in M. bovis, similar proteins (i.e. orthologous to MPB64) have been ...
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Use of BACTEC MGIT 960 for Recovery of Mycobacteria from Clinical Specimens: Multicenter Study
... BACTEC MGIT 960 instrument is a fully automated system that exploits the fluorescence of an oxygen sensor to detect growth of mycobacteria in ...BACTEC MGIT 960 system and 168 isolates with ...
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Evaluation of MGIT 960 Based Antimicrobial Testing and Determination of Critical Concentrations of First and Second Line Antimicrobial Drugs with Drug Resistant Clinical Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... isolates, MGIT 960 is appropriate for drug susceptibility testing of most of the drugs examined, including five first-line and five second-line ...for MGIT 960 and the RRM for rifampin and ...
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Quantitative Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Use of MGIT 960 and EpiCenter Instrumentation
... the MGIT 960 sys- tem in combination with EpiCenter software equipped with the TBeXiST module, thus providing a fully automated walk-away system for quantitative DST of ...The MGIT 960 ...
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Use of Molecular Methods To Identify the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC) and Other Mycobacterial Species and To Detect Rifampin Resistance in MTBC Isolates following Growth Detection with the BACTEC MGIT 960 System
... automated MGIT 960 is comparable in sensitivity and rapidity to the BACTEC 460 TB system (10, ...the MGIT or any other new broth-based system is of limited ben- efit if it cannot be correlated with ...
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Evaluation of BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT 960) Automated System for Drug Susceptibility Testing ofMycobacterium tuberculosis
... BACTEC MGIT 960 and were found susceptible by the radiometric ...BACTEC MGIT 960 and MOP (in LJ ...BACTEC MGIT 960 in- ...
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Multicenter Laboratory Evaluation of the MB/BacT Mycobacterium Detection System and the BACTEC MGIT 960 System in Comparison with the BACTEC 460TB System for Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... BACTEC MGIT 960 system, whereas the MB/BacT test had one VME and two false resistance results, or ...BACTEC MGIT 960 VME was ...BACTEC MGIT 960 VME strain was ...BACTEC ...
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Evaluation of the Invader Assay with the BACTEC MGIT 960 System for Prompt Isolation and Identification of Mycobacterial Species from Clinical Specimens
... BACTEC MGIT 960 system that together provide an efficient procedure for clinical ...BACTEC MGIT 960 system and did not react to 83 contaminated MGIT ...
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Susceptibility Testing with the Manual Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) and the MGIT 960 System Provides Rapid and Reliable Verification of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis
... BACTEC MGIT 960 system to the BACTEC 460 method for susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium ...the MGIT 960 and the manual MGIT systems agreed with the BACTEC 460 results in 94 and 97% ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of the BACTEC MGIT 960 System for Recovery of Mycobacteria
... BACTEC MGIT 960 system is a fully auto- mated, high capacity, nonradiometric, noninvasive instrument which requires neither needles nor other sharp implements to simultaneously incubate and monitor ...
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Accelerated Detection and Identification of Mycobacteria with MGIT 960 and COBAS AMPLICOR Systems
... The current epidemiology of mycobacterial infections in high- and medium-income countries is characterized by epi- demic bursts of tuberculosis in high-risk minority groups (14). There has also been an increase in the ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of Bactec MGIT 960 System for Second Line Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
... The MGIT 960 liquid, nonradiometric SIRE DST (Becton Dickinson Di- agnostic Systems), whose performance is comparable to that of the Bactec 460 system, has been commercially available since April 2002 (4, ...
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Meta Analysis of BACTEC MGIT 960 and BACTEC 460 TB, with or without Solid Media, for Detection of Mycobacteria
... The present analysis was aimed to provide an overall sum- mary of diagnostic accuracy from the multitude of sometimes conflicting results from reports on the comparative diagnostic yield of the BACTEC ...
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Direct Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for Pyrazinamide by Use of the Bactec MGIT 960 System
... tocol was used instead of the standard 4- to 13-day protocol for the INH and RIF indirect tests, to allow more time for the growth control tube to reach the required 400 growth units for a valid test. The indirect PZA ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of Fully Automated BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube 960 System for Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
... Among the primary drugs, EMB is considered a difficult drug to be tested that often yields less reproducible results. For the BACTEC 460 TB, Roberts et al. (14) observed a sensitivity value that did not exceed 66%, when ...
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Evaluation of Methods for Testing the Susceptibility of Clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates to Pyrazinamide
... and MGIT 960 are the only two methods recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for susceptibility testing ...the MGIT 960 system, the mDST, the PZase activity assay, and two ...
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Discordance across Several Methods for Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in a Single Laboratory
... the MGIT 960 SIRE method, up to 49% of all EMB- susceptible findings might be ...the MGIT 960 method has been reported since the scale-up of the platform (9) and has been postulated to be a ...
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