What is new in the diagnosis of tuberculosis? Part II: Techniques for drug susceptibility testing

Ramachandran, R and Paramasivan, C N (2003) What is new in the diagnosis of tuberculosis? Part II: Techniques for drug susceptibility testing. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 50 (4). pp. 197-202. ISSN 0019-5705

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Abstract

Drug susceptibility testing can be performed based on mycobacterial cultivation on solid media, either egg or agar-based. In the direct test a set of drug-containing and drug-free media is inoculated directly with concentrated specimen. The advantage of the direct method over indirect method is that the results are available sooner (within 3 weeks on agar plates), and better represent the patient’s original bacterial population

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URI:	http://eprints.nirt.res.in/id/eprint/613

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