Use of a Molecular Diagnostic Test in AFB Smear Positive Tuberculosis Suspects Greatly Reduces Time to Detection of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis

• Nestani Tukvadze ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nestani Tukvadze, Russell R. Kempker

  * E-mail: marikushane@yahoo.com (NT); rkempke@emory.edu (RRK)

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Russell R. Kempker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nestani Tukvadze, Russell R. Kempker

  * E-mail: marikushane@yahoo.com (NT); rkempke@emory.edu (RRK)

  Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Iagor Kalandadze,

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Ekaterina Kurbatova,

  Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Michael K. Leonard,

  Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Rusudan Apsindzelashvili,

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Nino Bablishvili,

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Maia Kipiani,

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Henry M. Blumberg

  Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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