Given the increases in drug-resistant tuberculosis, laboratory capacities for drug
susceptibility testing are being scaled up worldwide. A laboratory must decide among …

With increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), accurate drug
susceptibility testing (DST) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to first-line drugs has become …

Since numbers of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are on the rise, the
simple classification into “susceptible” and “resistant” strains based on susceptibility testing …

Conventional indirect drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with liquid
medium is well established and offers time-saving and reliable results. This multicenter …

The mycobacterium growth indicator tube (MGIT960) automated liquid medium testing
method is becoming the international gold standard for second-line drug susceptibility …

We present a statistical summary of results from the Model Performance Evaluation Program
(MPEP) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility Testing, 1994 to 2008 …

Increasingly complex drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major global health concern
and one of the primary reasons why TB is now the leading infectious cause of death …

During the last decade considerable attention has been focussed upon the development of
new technologies and methodologies for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium …

Objective To evaluate the performance of the Sensitire MYCOTB MIC Plate (MYCOTB)
which could measure the twelve anti-tuberculosis drugs susceptibility on one 96-wells plate …

Drug-resistance testing, or antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), is mandatory for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cases of failure on standard therapy. We reviewed the …