Diagnostic utility of a line probe assay for multidrug resistant-TB in smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis.

Diagnostic utility of a line probe assay for multidrug resistant-TB in smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis.

To evaluate the performance of Genotype MTBDRplus VER 2.0 in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in sputum smear-negative pulmonary TB cases.A total of 572 Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear-negative samples were selected and subjected to line probe assay (Genotype MTBDRplus VER 2.0), and cult...

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Main Authors: Binit Kumar Singh, Surendra K Sharma, Rohini Sharma, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Vithal P Myneedu, Mikashmi Kohli, Dinkar Bhasin, Sanjay Sarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5568731?pdf=render

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