Bibliographic citations
Chauca, J., (2005). Determinación de la susceptibilidad de cepas de Mycobacterium tuberculosis a rifampicina e isoniacida mediante la prueba rápida de susceptibilidad del micobacteriófago D29 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9696
Chauca, J., Determinación de la susceptibilidad de cepas de Mycobacterium tuberculosis a rifampicina e isoniacida mediante la prueba rápida de susceptibilidad del micobacteriófago D29 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9696
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title = "Determinación de la susceptibilidad de cepas de Mycobacterium tuberculosis a rifampicina e isoniacida mediante la prueba rápida de susceptibilidad del micobacteriófago D29",
author = "Chauca Carhuajulca, José Antonio",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2005"
}
Antibiotic therapy offers a high probability of cure to patients with tuberculosis (TB), but resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis constitute a threat to the control of this illness. The standard methods to determine the drug susceptibility of M. tuberculosis require many days to obtain results, limiting their uselfulness; automated methods and those based on the molecular biology have been able to reduce the requisite time, but their high cost and need for sophisticated equipment restrict their use in developing countries. The objective of the present effort has been to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a rapid (3 to 4 days) low-cost test based on the use of the Mycobacteriophage D29 to determine the susceptibility of strains of M. tuberculosis to Rifampicin and Isoniazid. The results obtained show that the susceptibility test for Rifampicin using Mycobacteriophage D29 has a high diagnostic accuracy as compared to the standard indirect proportions method on Löwenstein Jensen medium (sensitivity 100% and specificity 98%) and high agreement with other more expensive rapid tests (κ = 0.966 with MGIT and MABA); this test could be useful in the therapeutic management of TB patients. Given the association between the resistance to Rifampicin and Isoniazid, which define Multiple Drug Resistance (MDR), this test seems to be suitable for the rapid detection of probable TB-MDR strains (κ = 0.978). The susceptibility test for Isoniacid using Mycobacteriophage D29 doesn't have a similarly high diagnostic accuracy compared to the standard method (sensitivity 80.4 and specificity 80.8) and shows low agreement with the other rapid tests chosen (κ = 0.600 with MGIT and MABA); this test would be of limited usefulness in the management of TB patients. Further studies to determine the usefulness of Mycobacteriophage D29 tests for specific antituberculosis drugs are warranted.
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