Subbammal, S (1973) Drug sensitivity tests for tubercle bacilli. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 20 (2). pp. 72-77. ISSN 0019-5705
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Abstract
Mitchison in 1962 defined resistance as "a decrease in sensitivity of sufficient degree to be reasonably certain that the strain concerned is different from a sample of wild strains of human type that have never come into contact with the drugs". Sensitivity tests are designed with the object of detecting such a decrease in sensitivity. The most efficient criterion of resis-tance may be slightly different from one labora-tory to another. Further, measures of sensitivity are expressed on different scales by the 3 methods of sensitivity tests. Comparison of such methods can be valid only if objective methods of cali-bration of sensitivity tests are employed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Tuberculosis > Laboratory Research |
| Divisions: | Basic Science Research |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Rathinasabapati R |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2013 06:28 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2016 04:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/116 |
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