RNA-based drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Last updated on 23-8-2019 by Anonymous (not verified)

Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding

English

SCIENSANO

Keywords

Abstract:

Background Multidrug resistance of Tuberculosis strains (MDR-TB) are one of the major WHO health concerns. One of the challenges that hampers the effective response to MDR-TB is the long turnaround time of phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing (DST). To counter this, new fast and sensitive DNA-based methods were successfully introduced over the last years. However, these (a) are based on the knowledge on resistance mutations, (b) do not distinguish living from dead cells, (c) ignore all intrinsic resistance mechanisms, and (d) ignore the influence of compensatory mutations. Objective…

Associated health topics:

QR code

QR code for this page URL