Objectives The reference standard methods for drug susceptibility testing (DST) of M.
tuberculosis are very slow to give results, and due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant …

Tuberculosis is still a major health problem worldwide. Although treatment regimens
currently available can cure almost all tuberculosis drug susceptible cases, problems such …

This study examines the anti-bacterial activity of tungsten oxide (WO 3-x) nanoparticles
prepared via nanosecond pulsed laser ablation using different concentrations of hydrogen …

Tuberculosis still represents a major public health problem, especially in low-resource
countries where the burden of the disease is more important. Multidrug-resistant and …

SETTINGS: National Tuberculosis (TB) Reference Laboratory and Department of Medical
Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda …

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Systematic surveillance of antituberculosis drug resistance
allows identification of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant isolates of …

Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of the BACTEC
MGIT 960 (M960) system compared with the proportion method (PM) on Löwenstein-Jensen …

In this study, we developed a modified NRA (MONRA) to determine the first and second-line
drug susceptibilities of 5 reference ATCC strains and 42 clinical M. tuberculosis isolates …

The aim of this study was to evaluate a nitrate reductase assay (NRA) performed on smear-
positive sputa for the direct detection of rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A …

SETTING: Programmatic implementation of decentralized rapid drug susceptibility testing
(DST) in Lima, Peru. OBJECTIVE: Pre-post analysis compared time to diagnosis, treatment …