Background Growth-based drug susceptibility testing (DST) is the reference standard for
diagnosing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), but standard time to result (TTR) is typically≥ 3 …

Background Even though the WHO-endorsed, non-commercial MODS assay offers rapid,
reliable TB liquid culture and phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) at lower cost than …

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by different species of the genus
Mycobacte‐-ria. Together with human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)/Acquired …

Most models of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), do not provide results
customized to local conditions. We created a dynamic transmission model to project TB …

SETTING: Primary health care centres in Callao, Peru. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect
of universal access to the microscopic-observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay on …

Introduction: Rapid genotypic and phenotypic methods for multi-drug-resistant-tuberculosis
(MDR-TB) detection are now widely available. Zimbabwe adopted the use of GeneXpert …

Tuberculosis TB is considered a sobering example of inequity. It is a disease predominantly
of the socially and economically disadvantaged. This neglect is evidenced by lack of political …

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB),
transmitted orally-respiratory and mainly affects the lungs, leading to an intense cough, fever …

Drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB) is a matter of grave concern for TB control programs.
Accurate and rapid identification of resistance are important to avoid nosocomial and …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes one of the diseases with the highest mortality and
morbidity rate in the Americas and around the world. In develo** countries, the diagnosis …