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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 107, No. 1, 2012, pp. 142-144 		Bioline Code: oc12021
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2012, pp. 142-144

 en Comparative evaluation under routine conditions of the nitrate reduction assay, the proportion assay and the MGIT 960 assay for drug susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis check for this species in other resources
de Souza Fonseca, Leila; de Oliveira Vieira, Gisele Betzler; Sobral, Luciana Fonseca; Ribeiro, Elizabete Oliveira & Marsico, Anna Grazia

Abstract

The performance of the nitrate reductase assay (NRA) was compared with the proportion method (PM) on Lowenstein-Jensen medium and the BACTEC MGIT960 assay under routine conditions using 160 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a high proportion of resistant strains. The mean time to obtain results was 8.8 days and the overall agreements between NRA and PM and NRA and M960 were 95% and 94%, respectively. NRA was easy to perform and represents a useful tool for the rapid screening of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis check for this species in other resources strains in low-resource countries.

Keywords
tuberculosis - nitrate reductase assay - drug susceptibility

 
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