International Journal of Mycobacteriology (Jan 2014)

Stratifying low level Isoniazid resistance using additional intermediate drug concentration

  • Rajagopalan Lakshmi,
  • Ranjani Ramachandran,
  • A Syam Sundar,
  • Fathima Rahman,
  • Vanaja Kumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmyco.2014.02.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 152 – 154

Abstract

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Isoniazid (INH) susceptibility testing for 100 Mycobacterium tuberculosis performed by conventional minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) method was stratified using additional drug concentrations. Introduction of additional drug concentrations did not greatly improve the discriminatory capacity, but can be used in specialized studies pertaining to cross resistance between structural analogues of INH.

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