Evaluation of the nitrate-based colorimetric method for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to streptomycin and ethambutol in liquid cultures | Zendy

Heidi Syre | Zendy; Håvard Valvatne | Zendy; Per Sandven | Zendy; Harleen M. S. Grewal | Zendy

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Evaluation of the nitrate-based colorimetric method for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to streptomycin and ethambutol in liquid cultures

Author(s) -

Heidi Syre,

Håvard Valvatne,

Per Sandven,

Harleen M. S. Grewal

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkl054

Subject(s) - ethambutol , streptomycin , mycobacterium tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , tuberculosis , mycobacterium , nitrate reductase , antibiotics , medicine , biology , chemistry , nitrate , pathology , ecology

To evaluate the inexpensive colorimetric nitrate reductase-based antibiotic susceptibility (CONRAS) assay for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to streptomycin and ethambutol in liquid cultures, and to compare the CONRAS test with the manual mycobacteria growth indicator tube (MGIT) test, using the radiometric BACTEC 460TB method as reference.

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