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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2008

Comparative study for determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to first- and second-line antituberculosis drugs by the Etest using 7H11, blood, and chocolate agar.

Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Kemal Bilgin, Meltem Uzun, Alper Akgunes, Anne Yusof, Belma Durupinar

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Ahmet Yilmaz CobanDepartment of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Ondokuz Mayis University Medical School, Samsun, Turkey. cobanay2003@yahoo.com.tr
Kemal Bilgin
Meltem Uzun
Alper Akgunes
Anne Yusof
Belma Durupinar

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated the performance of blood and chocolate agar as alternatives to Middlebrook 7H11 agar for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to first-and second-line drugs by the Etest method. A total of 39 strains of M. tuberculosis including 22 multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains and 17 susceptible strains were tested. In conclusion, our results showed that chocolate agar gave insufficient growth, needing up to 21 days of incubation, while results on blood agar were comparable to those on Middlebrook 7H11 agar and can be further explored as an alternative for Etest-based susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis.

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AgarAntitubercular AgentsCulture MediaHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisAgarAntitubercular AgentsCulture Media

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PMID18945843
PMCPMC2593295

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