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Multicentre study on the reproducibility of MALDI-TOF MS for nontuberculous mycobacteria identification.
the identification of NTM in 15 laboratories in 9 European countries. A total of 98 NTM clinical isolates were grown on Löwenstein-Jensen. Biomass was collected in tubes with water and ethanol, ...
Strong increase of true and false positive mycobacterial cultures sent to the National Reference Centre in Belgium, 2007 to 2016.
Mathys Source: Euro Surveill, Volume 24, Issue 11 (2019) Abstract: IntroductionIn 2007, a new federal legislation in Belgium prohibited non-biosafety level 3 laboratories to process culture tubes suspected ...
Time-and-motion tool for the assessment of working time in tuberculosis laboratories: a multicentre study.
Werf; F Drobniewski; V Nikolayevskyy Source: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Volume 22, Issue 4 (2018) Keywords: hands-on time laboratory diagnosis Workload Abstract: SETTING: Implementation of novel diagnostic ...
A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study.
and Sudan. METHODS: On April 29 and May 30, 2016, the Swiss and German National Mycobacterial Reference Laboratories independently triggered an outbreak investigation after four patients were diagnosed with ...
MALDI-TOF for the identification of Mycobacteria and their drug resistance profiles
diagnostic laboratories. Health Topics: Tuberculosis Tuberculose Tuberculose Full text language: English Category: C1 FOS Classification: 3.03 Health sciences ...