Development of low-cost inverted microscope to detect early growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in MODS culture.

The microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay for rapid, low-cost detection of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis depends upon visualization of the characteristic cording colonies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in liquid media. This has conventionally required an inverte...

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Main Authors: Mirko Zimic, Abner Velazco, Germán Comina, Jorge Coronel, Patricia Fuentes, Carmen G Luna, Patricia Sheen, Robert H Gilman, David A J Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2843629?pdf=render