Second-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance testing in Ghana identifies the first extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis case

Clicks: 320
ID: 6210
2018
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Steady

Ranked #426 of 1,693 articles by views in Infection and drug resistance

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 1,693 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
Second-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance testing in Ghana identifies the first extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis case Stephen Osei-Wusu,1,2 Michael Amo Omari,3 Adwoa Asante-Poku,1 Isaac Darko Otchere,1 Prince Asare,1 Audrey Forson,3 Jacob Otu,4 Martin Antonio,4 Dorothy Yeboah-Manu1 1Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; 2West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana; 3Department of Chest Diseases, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana; 4Medical Research Council Unit, Fajara, The Gambia Background: Drug resistance surveillance is crucial for tuberculosis (TB) control. Therefore, our goal was to determine the prevalence of second-line anti-TB drug resistance among diverse primary drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates in Ghana. Materials and methods: One hundred and seventeen MTBC isolates with varying first-line drug resistance were analyzed. Additional resistance to second-line anti-TB drugs (streptomycin [STR], amikacin [AMK] and moxifloxacin [MOX]) was profiled using the Etest and GenoType MTBDRsl version 2.0. Genes associated with resistance to AMK and MOX (gyrA, gyrB, eis, rrs, tap, whiB7 and tlyA) were then analyzed for mutation. Results: Thirty-seven (31.9%) isolates had minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ≥2 µg/mL against STR while 12 (10.3%) isolates had MIC values ≥1 µg/mL for AMK. Only one multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolate (Isolate ID: TB/Nm 919) had an MIC value of ≥0.125 µg/mL for MOX (MIC
Reference Key
stephen2018secondlineinfection Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Stephen Osei-Wusu;Michael Amo Omari;Adwoa Asante-Poku;Isaac Darko Otchere;Prince Asare;Audrey Forson;Jacob Otu;Martin Antonio;Dorothy Yeboah-Manu and
Journal Infection and drug resistance
Year 2018
DOI
10.2147/IDR.S152720
URL
Keywords Keywords not found

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.