| Literature DB >> 24456754 |
Andreas H Diacon1, Lize van der Merwe2, Anne-Marie Demers3, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier4, Amour Venter5, Peter R Donald6.
Abstract
Time to liquid culture positivity (TTP) is a technically accessible and widely available measure of viable mycobacterial load in sputum samples. We describe the ability of TTP to predict colony forming unit counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from sputum samples collected before or during the first 14 days of antituberculosis therapy.Entities:
Keywords: Drug evaluation; Early bactericidal activity; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis treatment
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24456754 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2013.12.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Tuberculosis (Edinb) ISSN: 1472-9792 Impact factor: 3.131