Evaluation of Xpert MTB/XDR test for susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to first and second-line drugs in Uganda

• Achilles Katamba ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: willyssengooba@gmail.com (WS); amkatamba@gmail.com (AK)

  ¶‡ AK and WS are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit and Uganda Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Willy Ssengooba ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: willyssengooba@gmail.com (WS); amkatamba@gmail.com (AK)

  ¶‡ AK and WS are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Lung Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Biomedical Research Center, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-110X

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• James Sserubiri,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Biomedical Research Center, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Derrick Semugenze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Biomedical Research Center, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• George William Kasule,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis, and Leprosy Programme, Kampala, Uganda

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• Abdunoor Nyombi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis, and Leprosy Programme, Kampala, Uganda

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• Raymond Byaruhanga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis, and Leprosy Programme, Kampala, Uganda

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• Stavia Turyahabwe,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis, and Leprosy Programme, Kampala, Uganda

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• Moses L. Joloba

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Biomedical Research Center, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis, and Leprosy Programme, Kampala, Uganda

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