A Multilaboratory, Multicountry Study To Determine MIC Quality Control Ranges for Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing of Selected First-Line Antituberculosis Drugs, Second-Line Injectables, Fluoroquinolones, Clofazimine, and Linezolid.

ABSTRACT: Our objective was to establish reference MIC quality control (QC) ranges for drug susceptibility testing of antimycobacterials, including first-line agents, second-line injectables, fluoroquinolones, and World Health Organization category 5 drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis using a 7H9 broth microdilution MIC method. A tier-2 reproducibility study was conducted in eight participating laboratories using Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. Three lots of custom-made frozen 96-well polystyrene microtiter plates were used and prepared with 2× prediluted drugs in 7H9 broth-oleic acid albumin dextrose catalase. The QC reference strain was Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. MIC frequency, mode, and geometric mean were calculated for each drug. QC ranges were deri

SUBMITTER: Kaniga K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5121386 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature