| Literature DB >> 16772411 |
Farida Nateche1,2, Anandi Martin3, Saliha Baraka1, Juan Carlos Palomino3, Safia Khaled1, Françoise Portaels3.
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This study assessed the performance of a rapid, low-cost, colorimetric method, the resazurin microtitre assay (REMA) plate method, for the detection of resistance to isoniazid and rifampicin in 136 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from two hospitals in Algiers. MICs were determined and the results were compared with those obtained with the conventional proportion method on Löwenstein-Jensen medium. Excellent results were obtained for the REMA plate method, with a sensitivity of 100 % for both isoniazid and rifampicin and a specificity of 98.3 and 99.2 %, respectively. The REMA plate method appears to be a reliable method for the rapid determination of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and is a good alternative for use in resource-limited countries such as Algeria.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16772411 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46513-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Microbiol ISSN: 0022-2615 Impact factor: 2.472