OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of blood agar for the susceptibility testing of 50 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates against isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RMP), streptomycin (SM) and ethambutol (EMB). DESIGN The activity of the drugs was determined by the proportion method on blood agar instead of Middlebrook 7H10 agar according to Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute recomm...

BACKGROUND In low-income countries there is a great need for economical methods for testing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the thin-layer agar (TLA) for rapid detection of resistance to rifampicin (RMP), ofloxacin (OFX) and kanamycin (KM) in M. tuberculosis clinical isolates and to determine the sensitivity, specificity and time to posit...

The problem of role mining, a bottom-up process of discovering roles from the user-permission assignments (UPA), has drawn increasing attention in recent years. The role mining problem (RMP) and several of its variants have been proposed in the literature. While the basic RMP discovers roles that exactly represent the UPA, the inexact variants, such as the δ-approx RMP and MinNoise-RMP, allow f...

BACKGROUND The emergence of drug resistance is one of the most important threats to tuberculosis control programs. This study was aimed to analyze the frequency of gene mutations associated with resistance to isoniazid (INH), rifampicin (RMP) and ethambutol (EMB) among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Northwest Ethiopia, and to assess the performance of the GenoType® MTBDRplus and GenoT...

Progressive motoneuronopathy (PMN) is an autosomal recessive mouse disease, which is characterized by the development of hind limbs paralysis rapidly progressing to the anterior parts of the body, muscular atrophy, respiratory depression, and death at 6-7 postnatal weeks. Here, we recorded the resting membrane potential (RMP), spontaneous miniature endplate potentials (MEPPs), and quantum conte...

SETTING Four regional laboratories belonging to the Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory of São Paulo State, Brazil. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the nitrate reductase assay (NRA) for rifampicin (RMP) susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from clinical sputum samples of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). DESIGN Performance of the NRA for detection of M.tuberculosis sus...

Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) as alternative to current WHO MDT. Individual drugs tested were Rifampicin (RMP), Rifapentine (RPT) and Moxifloxacin (MOXI). Drug combinations were RMP, Clarithromycin (CLARI), Minocycline (MINO) and RMP, MINO and Ofloxacin (OFLO). RPT drug combinations were RPT, CLARI, MINO and RPT, OFLO, MINO. Both the drugs and drug combinations were used as daily regimen and...

Compressed sensing enables the acquisition of sparse signals at a rate that is much lower than the Nyquist rate. Compressed sensing initially adopted [Formula: see text] minimization for signal reconstruction which is computationally expensive. Several greedy recovery algorithms have been recently proposed for signal reconstruction at a lower computational complexity compared to the optimal [Fo...

Purpose This paper aims to offer a multi-dimensional scale for measuring the concept of perceived unfairness revenue management pricing (RMP) in context hospitality. Design/methodology/approach To develop measurement RMP, authors conducted qualitative study using critical incident technique identify key components our tool. They then collected two samples quantitative data enabling them have co...

The ADDL continues to participate in national surveillance programs for classical swine fever, avian influenza, chronic wasting disease, scrapie and foot and mouth disease. The national program for routine surveillance for exotic Newcastle disease has been discontinued. The program for surveillance for classical swine fever has been expanded to include samples collected by Indiana private pract...