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Tuberculosis
Reports summarize tuberculosis study results from G.S. Ejigu and co-researchers
April 8th, 2008
According to recent research from Ethiopia, "Liquid culture systems are more rapid and sensitive for both the detection and drug susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. St Peter's TB Specialised Hospital and public health laboratory, Addis Ababa." "To compare the microscopic-observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay with the BACTEC-MGIT 960 system for isoniazid and rifampicin DST (i.e., multidrug-resistant tuberculosis [MDR-TB] identification) of M. tuberculosis. The evaluation was based on 58 smear- and culture-positive sputum samples from patients diagnosed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BACTEC-MGIT was used as the reference standard. For the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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