Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Detection, Latvia
Open Access
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 11 (9) , 1461-1463
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.041236
Abstract
To improve multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) detection, we successfully introduced the rpoB gene mutation line probe assay into the national laboratory in Latvia, a country with epidemic MDR-TB. The assay detected rifampin resistance with 91% sensitivity and 96% specificity within 1 to 5 days (vs. 12–47 days for BACTEC).Keywords
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