Testing (TB)
MTT is Cheap, Accessible Test for Rifampin Resistance
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 11th, 1998
The simple and inexpensive test could one day extend multidrug-resistance testing to areas which currently have little access to existing lab-intensive tests, researchers say.
"The MTT assay could, in combination with a test to detect resistance to isoniazid, be a cheap and rapid screening method for multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is affordable even by low-income countries where tuberculosis is a major public health problem," Robert N. Mshana and colleagues from Ethiopia's Armauer Hansen Research...
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