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The ins and outs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2011
Böttger E C
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Drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the diagnostic laboratory classifies clinical isolates as either drug-'resistant' or drug-'susceptible', on the basis of their ability to grow in the presence of a 'critical concentration' of the test compound. From knowledge of the mechanisms that underlie drug resistance, it has become evident that drug resistance in M. tuberculosis is quite...
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