Tuberculosis bacillary load, an early marker of disease severity: the utility of tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay
Thorax; 75 (7), 2020
In this comparative biomarker study, we analysed 1768 serial sputum samples from 178 patients at 4 sites in Southeast Africa. We show that tuberculosis Molecular Bacterial Load Assay (TB-MBLA) reduces time-to-TB-bacillary-load-result from days/weeks by culture to hours and detects early patient treatment...
Antibiotics, Antitubercular/therapeutic use, Bacterial Load, Biomarkers/metabolism, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/growth & development, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/therapy, d0127200, Prognosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/metabolism, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology