Performance Comparison of Three Rapid Tests for the Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

Performance Comparison of Three Rapid Tests for the Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of several recently developed assays for the detection of multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) in a large, multinational field trial.Samples from 1,128 M/XDR-TB suspects were examined by Line Probe Assay (LPA), Pyrosequenc...

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Main Authors: Antonino Catanzaro, Timothy C Rodwell, Donald G Catanzaro, Richard S Garfein, Roberta L Jackson, Marva Seifert, Sophia B Georghiou, Andre Trollip, Erik Groessl, Naomi Hillery, Valeriu Crudu, Thomas C Victor, Camilla Rodrigues, Grace Shou-Yean Lin, Faramarz Valafar, Edward Desmond, Kathleen Eisenach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4556461?pdf=render

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