Caviedes Luz, Delgado Jose, Gilman Robert H
Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Pathology Department, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
J Clin Microbiol. 2002 May;40(5):1873-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.5.1873-1874.2002.
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.
耐多药结核病的出现凸显了对低成本、快速方法的需求,以确定结核分枝杆菌对抗生素的敏感性。一种新的、快速、易于读取且廉价的比色法,使用四氮唑指示剂,其在测定结核分枝杆菌对抗生素的敏感性方面,与更昂贵的阿拉玛蓝技术一样快速且准确。