Tetrazolium Microplate Assay as a Rapid and Inexpensive Colorimetric Method for Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 40 (5) , 1873-1874
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.40.5.1873-1874.2002
Abstract
The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis underscores the need for low-cost, rapid methods to determine the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics. A new, rapid, easily read, and inexpensive colorimetric method with a tetrazolium indicator performs this determination as quickly and accurately as the more expensive Alamar Blue technique.Keywords
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