475 Routine Performance of Line Probe Assay for the Detection of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis At Hospital Level

Thursday, April 26, 2012
Abay Poster Exhibition and Hall (Millennium Hall)
Abebaw Kebede Sr. Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Ethiopia

Learning Objectives: To evaluate the day-to-day performance of GenotypeŽMTBDRplus line probe assay (LPA) in detecting MDR-TB against merged reference standard made from three conventional drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods.