Burke Rachael M, Coronel Jorge, Moore David
Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
J Med Microbiol. 2017 Jul;66(7):1023-1026. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.000534.
We report the range of minimum inhibitory concentrations for six antimicrobial drugs in 228 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates from three distinct groups of patients (unselected patients, patients at high risk of drug-resistant TB and HIV-positive patients) in Lima, Peru. These data highlight the challenges of and discriminatory characteristics required for MTB drug susceptibility testing.