Direct-from-sputum rapid phenotypic drug susceptibility test for mycobacteria.

<h4>Background</h4>The spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a leading global public-health challenge. Because not all biological mechanisms of resistance are known, culture-based (phenotypic) drug-susceptibility testing (DST) provides important information that influen...

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Main Authors: Timothy E Butler, Aiden J Lee, Yongqiang Yang, Mitchell D Newton, Roli Kargupta, Sachidevi Puttaswamy, Shramik Sengupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238298