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. 2002 May;40(5):1873-4.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.5.1873-1874.2002.

Tetrazolium microplate assay as a rapid and inexpensive colorimetric method for determination of antibiotic susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Luz Caviedes  1 , Jose Delgado, Robert H Gilman
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Tetrazolium microplate assay as a rapid and inexpensive colorimetric method for determination of antibiotic susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Luz Caviedes et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 May.

Abstract

The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis underscores the need for low-cost, rapid methods to determine the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics. A new, rapid, easily read, and inexpensive colorimetric method with a tetrazolium indicator performs this determination as quickly and accurately as the more expensive Alamar Blue technique.

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