Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 53-61, January 2003

Detection and drug-susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis from sputum samples using luciferase reporter phage: comparison with the Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) system

  • Svetoslav Bardarov Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
    • Contributed equally to this manuscript.
    • ,
  • Horng Dou

      Affiliations

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
    • Contributed equally to this manuscript.
    • ,
  • Katherine Eisenach

      Affiliations

    • University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, AK, USA
    • ,
  • Niaz Banaiee

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • ,
  • S.u Ya

      Affiliations

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
    • ,
  • John Chan

      Affiliations

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
    • ,
  • William R. Jacobs Jr

      Affiliations

    • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Paul F. Riska

      Affiliations

    • State University of New York-Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-718-270-4181; fax: +1-718-270-4123.

Received 11 April 2002; accepted 19 August 2002.

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PII: S0732-8893(02)00478-9

doi:10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00478-9

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 53-61, January 2003

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