Cost-effectiveness comparison of Genechip and conventional drug susceptibility test for detecting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China.

BACKGROUND: Genechip (CapitalBio, Beijing, China) is a system for diagnosing resistance to rifampin and isoniazid, which shows high efficiency in detecting drug-resistant tuberculosis. Here, we firstly evaluated the costs of Genechip for detecting the drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosi...

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Main Authors: Yu Pang, Qiang Li, Xichao Ou, Hojoon Sohn, Zhiying Zhang, Junchen Li, Hui Xia, Kai Man Kam, Richard J O'Brien, Junying Chi, Shitong Huan, Daniel P Chin, Yan-lin Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3720587?pdf=render