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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Tuberculosis diagnosis after bleach processing for early stage tuberculosis laboratory capacity building
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Volume 16, No. 11, Year 2012
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Description
The diagnosis of tuberculosis is seriously hampered in the absence of standard biosafety laboratory facilities for specimen concentration and Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture. Within a laboratory twinning arrangement, heat-fixed direct smear and sediment from 74 bleach-processed and 20 non-processed specimens from Cumura Hospital, Guinea-Bissau, were sent to Lisbon for molecular evaluation of rifampicin resistance. Sequence analysis of a 369 base-pair rpoB locus detected 3.2% (3/94) resistant specimens. To our knowledge, this represents the first report on the molecular analysis of M. tuberculosis from bleach-processed sputum, an alternative to current diagnostic practice in low-resource settings. © 2012 The Union.
Authors & Co-Authors
David, Susana Correia De Matos
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Sutre, Ana Filipa
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Sanca, A.
Guinea-bissau
Cumura Hospital
Mané, A.
Guinea-bissau
Cumura Hospital
Henriques, V.
Guinea-bissau
Cumura Hospital
Portugal, C.
Portugal, Amadora
Hospital Fernando Fonseca
Sancho, L.
Portugal, Amadora
Hospital Fernando Fonseca
Cardoso, A.
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Paixão, E.
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Duarte, E. L.
Portugal, Evora
University of Évora
Leite, C. Q.F.
Brazil, Sao Paulo
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Salem, J. I.
Brazil, Manaus
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
Antunes, A.
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical
Statistics
Citations: 13
Authors: 13
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5588/ijtld.11.0658
ISSN:
10273719
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau