TY - JOUR AU - Skenders, Girts AU - Fry, Alicia AU - Prokopovica, Inga AU - Greckoseja, Silvija AU - Broka, Lonija AU - Metchock, Beverly AU - Holtz, Timothy AU - Wells, Charles AU - Leimane, Vaira T1 - Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Detection, Latvia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 9 SP - 1461 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To improve multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) detection, we successfully introduced the rpoB gene mutation line probe assay into the national laboratory in Latvia, a country with epidemic MDR-TB. The assay detected rifampin resistance with 91% sensitivity and 96% specificity within 1 to 5 days (vs. 12–47 days for BACTEC). KW - TB/HIV control KW - developing countries KW - multidrug-resistant TB, tuberculosis, TB diagnosis, dispatch KW - Latvia DO - 10.3201/eid1109.041236 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/9/04-1236_article ER - End of Reference