Multicenter laboratory validation of susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against classical second-line and newer antimicrobial drugs by using the radiometric BACTEC 460 technique and the proportion method with solid media.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on October 01, 1999

Authors

G E Pfyffer1, D A Bonato, A Ebrahimzadeh, W Gross, J Hotaling, J Kornblum, A Laszlo, G Roberts, M Salfinger, F Wittwer, S Siddiqi

Author Affiliations

1: Swiss National Center for Mycobacteria, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. pfyffer@immv.unizh.ch

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