Pseudo-Outbreak of Pre-Extensively Drug-Resistant (Pre-XDR) Tuberculosis in Kinshasa: Collateral Damage Caused by False Detection of Fluoroquinolone Resistance by GenoType MTBDRsl

Fluoroquinolones are the core drugs for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Molecular drug susceptibility testing methods provide considerable advantages for scaling up programmatic management and surveillance of drug-resistant TB. We describe here the misidentification of f...

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Hauptverfasser: Kaswa, Michel K., Aloni, Muriel, Nkuku, Léontine, Bakoko, Brian, Lebeke, Rossin, Nzita, Albert, Muyembe, Jean Jacques, de Jong, Bouke C., de Rijk, Pim, Verhaegen, Jan, Boelaert, Marleen, Ieven, Margareta, Van Deun, Armand
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4136193/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24871222
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00398-14
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