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Accurate and affordable detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in Tuberculosis sputum specimens by multiplex PCR-multiple probes melting analysis.
Infection - 1 Dec 2024
Xie Long, Zhu Xiao-Ya, Xu Li, Xu Xiao-Xie, Ruan Ze-Fan, Huang Ming-Xiang, Chen Li, Jiang Xi-Wen
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BACKGROUND: Escalating cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) pose a major challenge to global TB control efforts, necessitating innovative diagnostics to empower decentralized detection of gene mutations associated with resistance to rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH) in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) in resource-constrained settings. METHODS: Combining multiplex fluorescent PCR and...
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