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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2003

Resazurin microtiter assay plate testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibilities to second-line drugs: rapid, simple, and inexpensive method.

Anandi Martin, Mirtha Camacho, Françoise Portaels, Juan Carlos Palomino

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers.

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105citing papers in PubMed
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 306 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anandi MartinMycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp 2000, Belgium. amartin@itg.be
Mirtha Camacho
Françoise Portaels
Juan Carlos Palomino
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde · BE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis calls for new, rapid drug susceptibility tests. We have tested 150 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates against the second-line drugs ethionamide, kanamycin, capreomycin, ofloxacin, and para-aminosalicylic acid by the colorimetric resazurin microtiter assay and the proportion method. By visual reading, MICs were obtained after 8 days. A very good correlation between results by the colorimetric resazurin microtiter assay and the proportion method was obtained. The colorimetric resazurin microtiter assay is inexpensive, rapid, and simple to perform, and implementation of the assay is feasible for low-resource countries.

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OxazinesXanthenesAntitubercular AgentsColorimetryDrug Resistance, BacterialIndicators and ReagentsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMycobacterium tuberculosisReproducibility of ResultsAntitubercular AgentsIndicators and ReagentsOxazinesresazurinXanthenes

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PMID14576129
PMCPMC253784
OpenAlexW2156630451

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