These data substantiate the need for rapid and reliable methods for drug-susceptibility ... available culture-based techniques have the advantage of detailed protocols and prepared test kits ...

Owing to the lack of routine culture and susceptibility testing over the past 20 years, marked changes in both the causative pathogens in skin and soft tissue infections have gone unnoticed ...

S AMBALPUR: Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday informed that plans are underway to set up new culture drug susceptibility test (CDST) and line probe assay (LPA) labs at the ...