Nonweekend schedule for BACTEC drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Nonweekend schedule for BACTEC drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Determination of the drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by conventional methods using an agar-based medium may take 3 weeks or more to complete. On the other hand, results on positive cultures are generally available in 4 to 7 days with the radiometric (BACTEC, Johnston Laboratories, Towson, Md.) procedure. One disadvantage to the latter is the requirement to determine the quanti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.23.5.934-937.1986