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| Title |
Performance of MTBDRplus assay in detecting multidrug resistant tuberculosis at hospital level
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| Published in |
BMC Research Notes, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13104-017-2989-7 |
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| Authors |
Abebaw Kebede, Daniel Demisse, Meazashwork Assefa, Zerihun Getachew, Bazezew Yenew, Yared Tedla, Gobena Ameni |
| Abstract |
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) case finding progressively increased in Ethiopia mainly as a result of the utilization of World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed rapid technologies including MTBDRplus assay. However, there is inadequate data on routine testing performance of the MTBDRplus assay. Consequently, the aim of the study was to assess the routine performance of the MTBDRplus assay in detecting MDR-TB at St. Peter's TB Specialized Hospital. The sensitivity and specificity of MTBDRplus in detecting isoniazid (INH) resistance were 96.3 and 100%, respectively. While for rifampicin (RIF) 100% was recorded for both. Similarly, a sensitivity of 97.96% and a specificity of 100% was measured for detecting MDR-TB. Among 49 MTBDRplus RIF resistant isolates, 46 (93.9%) strains had rpoB mutation. S531L was the most common rpoB mutant (81.6% of RIF resistant cases). All MTBDRplus INH resistant isolates (n = 52) had S315T1 katG mutation. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 50 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 7 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 12% |
| Other | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 10 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 28% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 6 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 12 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2018.
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#2,148
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