Journal article
Evaluation of microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Viet Nam.
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BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) is important for the elimination of TB. We evaluated the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay as a direct rapid drug susceptibility testing (DST) method for MDR-TB screening in sputum samples METHODS: All adult TB suspects, who were newly presenting to Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital from August to November 2008 were enrolled into the study. Processed sputum samples were used for DST b...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC infectious diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 49
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2334
- ISSN:
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1471-2334
- Source identifiers:
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313075
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:313075
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Minh Ha et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Minh Ha et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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