Rapid Molecular Detection of Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance

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Catharina Boehme · Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

Pamela Nabeta · Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics

Doris Hillemann · Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Lung Center

Mark P. Nicol · University of Cape Town

Shubhada Shenai

Fiorella Krapp · Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Jenny Allen · South African Medical Research Council

Abstract

The MTB/RIF test provided sensitive detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance directly from untreated sputum in less than 2 hours with minimal hands-on time. (Funded by the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics.)

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Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 363, Issue 11, pp. 1005-1015

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0907847

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