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Estimation of genotype MTBDRPLUS line probe assay in detection of rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in comparison to liquid culture (BACTEC-960) drug susceptibility testing in a tertiary care hospital from Eastern India
Author(s) -
Chandan Kumar Poddar,
Namrata Kumari,
Rakesh Kumar,
Shivendra Kumar Shahi,
Naresh Kumar,
S. Sivaprasad Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
biomedicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 0970-2067
DOI - 10.51248/.v41i2.1060
Subject(s) - isoniazid , rifampicin , drug resistance , medicine , tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , subculture (biology) , multiple drug resistance , antibiotics , genotype , pharmacology , virology , biology , pathology , gene , biochemistry
Introduction and Aim: India has the uppermost trouble of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major challenge controlling resistance, reducing transmission and improving handling outcomes in MDR-TB patients is dependent on susceptibility testing. Isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (Rif) are the key first-line antituberculosis drugs, and resistance to these drugs i.e., MDR-TB, is likely to result in treatment failure and poor clinical outcomes. The present study was done to compare the performance of line probe assay test (GenoType® MTBDRplus) with liquid culture (MGIT 960) system for the detection of resistance to first-line drugs.
Materials and Methods: We estimate the performance of LPAs to BACTEC MGIT 960 system for susceptibility testing of bacterial resistance to first-line drugs: rifampicin (RIF), isoniazid (INH).
Results: We performing Drug susceptibility testing (DST), 219/258 MTB cultures were viable after subculture the results of DST using the MGIT 960 system were compared to those obtained by line probe assay. LPA detected a total 46/258 (17.81%) samples as drug resistant, of which 35/258 (13.70%) were resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid (MDR), 6/258 (2.28%) were rifampicin mono?resistant samples and 11/258 (4.11%) were isoniazid mono?resistant. Out of the culture?positive samples (219), LPA detected 39/219 (17.83%) as drug?resistant, of which 31/219 (14.2%) were resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid, 5/193 (2.08%) were rifampicin mono?resistant and 8/219 (3.7%) were isoniazid mono?resistant.
Conclusion: Drug resistant TB poses an enormous threat to TB control programs worldwide. Effective treatment of MDR-TB is very expensive, particularly in middle income countries such as India.