Mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Infections and False-Negative Results for Rifampin Resistance by GeneXpert MTB/RIF Are Associated with Poor Clinical Outcomes

The Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) assay is becoming a principal screening tool for diagnosing rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) infection. However, little is known about the performance of the Xpert assay in infections with both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains (mixed MTB...

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Hlavní autoři: Nicola M. Zetola, Sanghyuk S. Shin, Kefentse A. Tumedi, Keletso Moeti, Ronald Ncube, Mark P. Nicol, Ronald G. Collman, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Chawangwa Modongo
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: 2014
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.02489-13
https://jcm.asm.org/content/jcm/52/7/2422.full.pdf
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