Drug-resistance to tuberculosis remains a major public health threat. Here, we report two cases of extended-spectrum XDR (XXDR) tuberculosis, resistant to most first and second-line agents. Correlatio
NOTE. DPP = Dual Path Platform assay; ELISA = enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.*Random samples of acute and convalescent specimens from severe disease case-patients from Salvador were selected indepe
Drug-resistant tuberculosis, especially multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, is one of the urgent clinical problems and public health challenges. To simultaneo
10 fold dilutions of FMDV containing epithelial suspensions were analysed using the Svanova LFD device (a) by applying the suspensions directly to the device. RNA was extracted from each suspension an
