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[Phenotypic and genotypic methods for detecting multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis].
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - 1 Mar 2005
Porras Tania Bibiana, León Clara Inés, Guerrero Martha Inírida, Martin Anandi, Portaels Françoise, Palomino Juan Carlos
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BACKGROUND: Expeditious charactization of drug susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is difficult and, calls for the design and evaluation of faster, cheaper and more effective new techniques. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current study was to compare one genotypic and two phenotypic methods for rapid susceptibility detection of M. tuberculosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty-one M. tuberculosis strains were...
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