In search of rapid diagnosis and drug-resistance detection tools: is the FASTPlaqueTB test the answer?
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Rapid indication of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from liquid cultures using FASTPlaqueTB-RIF, a manual phage-based test.
SETTING A Mycobacteriology Reference Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa. OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of FASTPlaqueTB-RIF, a rapid bacteriophage-based test, to correctly identify rifampicin susceptibility in clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis after growth in the Bactec 460 semi-automated liquid culture system. DESIGN A comparative study of FASTPlaqueTB-RIF and conven...
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FASTPlaqueTB (Biotec Laboratories Ltd., Ipswich, UK) is a rapid test which utilizes bacteriophage amplification technology for the detection of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in clinical specimens. We evaluated performance of the FASTPlaqueTB test by comparing with BACTEC 460 TB culture system (Becton Dickinson Co., Maryland, USA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and acid fast bacilli (AFB) ...
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OBJECTIVES To determine the performance of the FASTPlaqueTB test, based on bacteriophage amplification technology, by comparison with the BACTEC 460 TB culture system, the Löwenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium culture method and Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining. METHODS Of 400 sputum specimens studied in our laboratory, 19 were excluded due to contaminant growth. The FASTPlaqueTB test was performed accord...
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SETTING Two Mycobacteriology Reference Laboratories in Johannesburg (Laboratory 1) and Cape Town (Laboratory 2), South Africa. OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of the FASTPlaqueTB-RIF test to correctly identify rifampicin susceptibility on strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultured on solid media. DESIGN A comparative study of FASTPlaqueTB-RIF and conventional drug susceptibility meth...
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SETTING Sputum samples were collected from suspected tuberculosis patients attending out-patient clinics at the Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the FASTPlaqueTB assay for rapid diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. DESIGN A comparative study of 584 sputum samples using acid-fast smear microscopy, Lowenstein-Jensen culture and FAST...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
دوره 6 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002