Comparative evaluation of GenoType MTBDRplus line probe assay with solid culture method in early diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at a tertiary care centre in India.

The objectives of the study were to compare the performance of line probe assay (GenoType MTBDRplus) with solid culture method for an early diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), and to study the mutation patterns associated with rpoB, katG and inhA genes at a tertiary care centre i...

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Main Authors: Raj N Yadav, Binit K Singh, Surendra K Sharma, Rohini Sharma, Manish Soneja, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Vithal P Myneedu, Mahmud Hanif, Ashok Kumar, Kuldeep S Sachdeva, Chinnambedu N Paramasivan, Balasangameshwra Vollepore, Rahul Thakur, Neeraj Raizada, Suresh K Arora, Sanjeev Sinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3764192?pdf=render