… diagnosed and previously treated smear-positive TB patients aged ≥ 18 years. Isolates were
tested for drug resistance … Generally, the drug resistance rates in the current study are fairly …

… advances in its diagnostic tools and drug therapy. Drug resistant Mycobacterium contributes
a … phenotypic and genotypic drug sensitivity test, status of drug resistance and the circulating …

… The LPAs used for this study were the GenoType MTBDRplus version 2 for detecting …
diagnostic assays (LPA and PSQ) and one growth-based assay (MODS) to detect drug resistance …

… success is limited due to the evolution of drug resistant variants (1). Thus, resistance
testing has become an important diagnostic tool in the management of HIV infections (2,3). …

… diagnosed TB patients [1]. The diagnosis of drug resistance for first-line antitubercular
drugs … The second-line drug resistance detection is a challenge due to very limited WHOendorsed …

… Acquired drug resistance to isoniazid in the present study was found to be 30.14%, which
is … Laboratory diagnostic aspects of drug resistant tuberculosis. Front Biosci 2004;9:2086-105. …

… Mycobacterium tuberculosis and associated drug resistance; especially among acid fast …
new diagnostic tests [8]. Data on the clinical utility of new tuberculosis drug resistance detection …

… and evaluate new TB diagnostic tests, including GenoType MTBDRplus, in … GenoType
MTBDRplus test for direct (ie, in sputum) detection of M. tuberculosis and RIF and INH resistance …

… rates between Beijing and non-Beijing genotype isolates or in the clinical features of infected
… the Beijing genotype and the drug resistance profile of the Beijing genotype isolates were …

… tuberculosis as well as drug resistance directly from clinical samples have become the most
popular diagnostic methodology with the emergence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The …