TB & Outbreaks Week
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of TB & Outbreaks Week
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Tuberculosis
Research from C. Acunavillaorduna and co-researchers yields new findings on tuberculosis
August 26th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, "Resistance to commonly used antituberculosis drugs is emerging worldwide. Conventional drug-susceptibility testing (DST) methods are slow and demanding." "Alternative, rapid DST methods would permit the early detection of drug resistance and, in turn, arrest tuberculosis transmission. A cost-effectiveness analysis of 5 DST methods was performed in the context of a clinical trial that compared rapid with conventional DST methods. The methods under investigation were direct phage-replication assay (FASTPlaque-Response; Biotech), direct amplification and reverse hybridization of the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-26)
|
