Rapid culture-based diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in developed and developing countries

S Asmar, M Drancourt - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains the gold standard for the laboratory
diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis, with 9 million new cases and 1.5 million deaths mainly …

Tuberculosis assays: past, present and future

NN Chegou, KGP Hoek, M Kriel… - Expert review of anti …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Recent developments in the field of TB diagnostics, including the introduction of the Xpert
MTB/RIF assay in field testing, raise the hope for faster and more accurate identification of …

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry identification of mycobacteria in routine clinical practice

A El Khechine, C Couderc, C Flaudrops, D Raoult… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Non-tuberculous mycobacteria recovered from respiratory tract specimens are
emerging confounder organisms for the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis worldwide …

Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostics in children: 2. Methodological issues for conducting and reporting research evaluations of tuberculosis diagnostics for …

LE Cuevas, R Browning, P Bossuyt… - Journal of Infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Confirming the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis is a major challenge. However, research
on childhood tuberculosis as it relates to better diagnostics is often neglected because of …

结核性胸膜炎的诊断现状与研究进展

卜建玲, 马玙 - 中国防痨杂志, 2009 - zgflzz.cn
胸腔积液是胸膜疾病最常见的临床表现, 可原发于胸膜自身疾病或继发于肺部疾病,
也可来源于全身性疾病. 胸腔积液的可能病因众多, 可包括不同病原所致的胸膜感染性疾病; …

Diagnosis of multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug‐resistant tuberculosis: current standards and challenges

GB Migliori, A Matteelli, D Cirillo… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION: The emergence of multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis (MDR‐TB) and, more
recently, extensively drug‐resistant TB (XDR‐TB) is widely considered a serious threat to …

Diagnosis of tuberculosis and drug resistance: what can new tools bring us?[State of the art series. New tools. Number 1 in the series]

F Drobniewski, V Nikolayevskyy… - … of tuberculosis and …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
This is an exciting time for tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics. The technology for rapid diagnosis
of TB and rifampicin (RMP) resistance in pulmonary sputum smear-positive specimens is …

Thin-layer-agar-based direct phenotypic drug susceptibility testing on sputum in Eswatini rapidly detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth and rifampicin resistance …

E Ardizzoni, E Ariza, D Mulengwa… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Xpert MTB/RIF rapidly detects resistance to rifampicin (RR); however, this test misses I491F-
RR conferring rpoB mutation, common in southern Africa. In addition, Xpert MTB/RIF does …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis: latest developments and future priorities

K Kumar, OM Kon - Annals of Research Hospitals, 2017 - arh.amegroups.org
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to impose a significant clinical and socioeconomic burden
globally. In 2015, there were 10.4 million new cases of TB and 1.8 million deaths attributable …

Tuberculosis in the developing world: recent advances in diagnosis with special consideration of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

L Grandjean, DAJ Moore - Current opinion in infectious diseases, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Global tuberculosis control in 2008 demands the use of new tools for more sensitive and
rapid detection of active disease and of drug resistance. Improved technologies are …