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Low-cost rapid detection of rifampicin resistant tuberculosis using bacteriophage in Kampala, Uganda.
Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials - 9 Jan 2007
Traore Hamidou, Ogwang Sam, Mallard Kim, Joloba Moses L, Mumbowa Francis, Narayan Kalpana, Kayes Susan, Jones-Lopez Edward C, Smith Peter G, Ellner Jerrold J, Mugerwa Roy D, Eisenach Kathleen D, McNerney Ruth
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a serious public health problem. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), defined as resistance to at least rifampicin and isoniazid, has been reported in all regions of the world. Current phenotypic methods of assessing drug susceptibility of M. tuberculosis are slow. Rapid molecular methods to detect resistance to rifampicin have been developed but they...
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