Article
Utility of GenoType MTBDRplus assay in rapid diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis at a tertiary care centre in India.
Indian journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Raveendran R, Wattal C, Oberoi J K, Goel N, Datta S, Prasad K J
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Molecular methods which allow rapid detection of tuberculosis as well as drug resistance directly from clinical samples have become the most popular diagnostic methodology with the emergence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of a line probe assay, GenoType MTBDRplus for the rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and mutations causing...
Topics
- Antitubercular Agents
- Bacteriological Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Hospitals
- Humans
- India
- Isoniazid
- Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
- Mutation, Missense
