A pseudo-outbreak of pre-XDR TB in Kinshasa Institute of Tropical Medicine University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Fluoroquinolones are the core drugs for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Molecular drug susceptibility testing methods have considerable advantages for scaling up programmatic management and surveillance of drug-resistant TB. We describe misidentification of fluoroquinolone resistance by the GenoType®MTBDRsl (MTBDRsl, Hain Lifescience GmbH, Nehren, Germany) Line Probe Assay (LPA) encountered during a feasibility and ...