[Microbiological aspects of identification of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis].

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This review discusses controversial issues, such as definitions of drug resistance, the conditions laboratory drug-susceptibility testing in all new patients is justified, and the requirements for the optimum turnaround time of laboratory reports. It also analyses the advantages and disadvantages of different methods for drug susceptibility testing, including those based on cultivation in the solid and liquid...

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