First evaluation after implementation of a quality control system for the second line drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis joint efforts in low and high incidence countries.

First evaluation after implementation of a quality control system for the second line drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis joint efforts in low and high incidence countries.

Three networks/projects involving 27 European countries were established to investigate the quality of second-line drug (SLD) susceptibility testing with conventional and molecular methods. 1. The "Baltic-Nordic TB-Laboratory Network" comprised 11 reference laboratories in the Baltic-Nordi...

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Main Authors: Doris Hillemann, Sven Hoffner, Daniela Cirillo, Francis Drobniewski, Elvira Richter, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Baltic-Nordic TB- Laboratory Network, TB PAN-NET, ECDC ERLN-TB Networks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3795631?pdf=render

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