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Time-and-motion tool for the assessment of working time in tuberculosis laboratories: a multicentre study.
1060 specimens were tested using four laboratory assays. The number of specimens per batch varied from one to 60; a total of 64 recordings were performed. Theoretical hands-on times per specimen (TTPS) ...
A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study.
isolates and clustered them using a threshold of five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP s). We collated epidemiological data from host countries from the European Centre for Disease Prevention ...
Meropenem-clavulanate for drug-resistant tuberculosis: a follow-up of relapse-free cases.
at least rifampicin, isoniazid, any fluoroquinolone and one of the injectable anti-tuberculosis drugs, remains a worldwide public health threat. Among repurposed drugs empirically used for XDR- TB ...
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 ...
WIV-ISP's experiences in the use of MALDI-TOF for the identification of Mycobacteria and their drug resistance profiles
testing identification MALDI-TOF Mycobacterium tuberculosis Abstract: An Van den Bossche presented WIV- ISP 's experiences in the use of Brüker’s Biotyper MALDI- TOF for the identification of ...