Diagnostics Evaluation of Smart Sure™ Mycobacterium tuberculosis Screening Kit and Smart Sure™ Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Detection Kit on Nonsputum Specimens at a Tertiary Care Center of North India.
Pankaj JorwalBinit Kumar SinghAnkita AnandFaisal KhanKrisha KhandelwalPayal SharmaNeeraj NischalManish SonejaPrayas SethiShikha DhawanNaveet WigPublished in: International journal of mycobacteriology (2024)
For the detection of MTB and its drug-resistance patterns (RIF and INH) in the specimens other than sputum, Smart Sure™ MTB and MDR-TB kits could play a vital role in TB endemic countries. While comparing the set-ups and skilled staffs, it required almost same as compared with previously approved WHO diagnostics used in resource-limited countries.
Keyphrases
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- multidrug resistant
- tertiary care
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- drug resistant
- real time pcr
- label free
- acinetobacter baumannii
- gram negative
- fine needle aspiration
- emergency department
- escherichia coli
- sensitive detection
- hepatitis c virus
- quantum dots
- hiv infected
- electronic health record