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Performance of MTBDR plus for detecting high/low levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to isoniazid.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Feb 2009
Brossier F, Veziris N, Jarlier V, Sougakoff W
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SETTING: We recently evaluated the Genotype MTBDR test for assessing Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to rifampicin (RMP) and isoniazid (INH) by detecting mutations in rpoB (codons 511-533) and katG (codon 315). A new version of the test, MTBDR plus, has been designed to also detect mutations in the regulatory region of inhA. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of MTBDR plus over MTBDR. RESULTS: In 113...
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