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Pyrazinamide Resistance Assays and Two-Month Sputum Culture Status in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2016
Velásquez Gustavo E, Calderon Roger I, Mitnick Carole D, Becerra Mercedes C, Huang Chuan-Chin, Zhang Zibiao, Contreras Carmen C, Yataco Rosa M, Galea Jerome T, Lecca Leonid W, Murray Megan B
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Phenotypic drug susceptibility testing is the current "gold standard" for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to antituberculous drugs. Pyrazinamide is one antituberculous drug for which the correlation between in vitro resistance and clinical outcomes remains unclear. Here we performed latent class analysis (LCA) to develop a consensus gold standard definition of pyrazinamide resistance using...
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