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The 2021 WHO catalogue of complex mutations associated with drug resistance: A genotypic analysis.

Tuberculosis Abstract: Background: Molecular diagnostics are considered the most promising route to achieving rapid, universal drug susceptibility testing for complex (MTBC). We aimed to generate a WHO endorsed ...

Multicentre study on the reproducibility of MALDI-TOF MS for nontuberculous mycobacteria identification.

Rep, Volume 12, Issue 1 (2022) Abstract: The ability of MALDI- TOF for the identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has improved recently thanks to updated databases and optimized protein ...

Antibiotic resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis from genome sequence data with Mykrobe.

Sintchenko; Grace Smith; Dick van Soolingen; Supply, Philip; Sabira Tahseen; Mark Wilcox; Irena Arandjelovic; Tim E A Peto; Derrick W Crook; Zamin Iqbal Source: Wellcome Open Res, Volume 4 (2019) Abstract: Two ...

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.

Soolingen; Stefan Niemann; Erik C Böttger; Peter M Keller; MDR-TB Cluster Consortium Source: Lancet Infect Dis (2018) Keywords: Cluster Tuberculosis Abstract: BACKGROUND: The risk of tuberculosis outbreaks ...

Meropenem-clavulanate for drug-resistant tuberculosis: a follow-up of relapse-free cases.

Volume 22, Issue 1 (2018) Keywords: Carbapenems repurposed drugs XDR-TB Abstract: BACKGROUND: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR- TB), defined as TB caused by a Mycobacterium strain resistant to ...

Virulence and immunogenicity of genetically defined human and porcine isolates of M. avium subsp. hominissuis in an experimental mouse infection

Abstract: Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (Mah) represents a health concern for humans and to a lesser extent for pigs, but its zoonotic potential remains elusive. Using multispacer sequence typing ...

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Brussels, 2010-2013.

Surveillance Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant Urban Health Young adult Abstract: The tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in Brussels-Capital Region is 3-fold higher than in Belgium as a whole. Eight ...

MALDI-TOF for the identification of Mycobacteria and their drug resistance profiles

Society of Mycobacteriology, ESM, Catania, Sicily, Italy (2016) Keywords: drug susceptibility testing identification MALDI-TOF Mycobacterium tuberculosis Abstract: In the last years, matrix-assisted laser ...

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