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Resource Centre

Standard Operating Procedures and Package Inserts

Sputum Microscopy	Tuberculosis Cultures
Tuberculin Skin Testing	Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT)
Bacteriophage-Based Assays	IGRAs
Rapid Tests for MDR-TB	Antigen Tests for TB

Technical Guide: Sputum Examination for Tuberculosis by Direct Microscopy in Low Income Countries IUATLD, 2000 - Download [Link]
Quality Smear Preparation for AFB RIT, JATA 2005 - Download [Link]
Tuberculosis Cultures
MGIT Procedure Manual FIND, BD - Download [Link]
BD BACTEC™ Instrumented Mycobacterial Growth Systems BACTEC™ MGIT™ 960 and BACTEC 460TB - Download [Link]
BacT/ALERT® 3D bioMérieux SA, France - Download: BacT/ALERT MB - [Link] BacT/ALERT MP - [Link] BacT/ALERT Training Manual - [Link]
Thin Layer Agar (TLA) Anandi Martin and Juan Carlos Palomino, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium - Download [Link]
Tuberculin Skin Testing
Tuberculin PPD RT23 SSI SSI, Denmark - Download [Link]
Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Download [Link]
Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Testing Global TB Institute, UMDNJ - Download [Link]
Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAAT)
AMPLIFIED MTD® (Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct) Test Gen-Probe, CA, USA - Download [Link]
COBAS® TaqMan® MTB Test Roche Diagnostics - Download [Link]
Bacteriophage-Based Assays
FASTPlaque-Response Biotec Laboratories Ltd, UK - Download [Link]
IGRAs
QuantiFERON-TB Gold In Tube Cellestis, Australia - Download [Link]
T-SPOT.TB Oxford Immunotec, UK - Download [Link]
Rapid Tests for MDR-TB
GenoType® MTBDRplus Hain LifeScience, Germany - Download [Link]
GenoType® MTBDRs/ Hain LifeScience, Germany - Download [Link]
INNO-LiPA Rif.TB Innogenetics, Belgium - Download [Link]
Nitrate Reductase Assay(NRA) Anandi Martin and Juan Carlos Palomino, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium - Download [Link]
Colorimetric Redox Indicator (CRI) Assay Anandi Martin and Juan Carlos Palomino, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium - Download [Link]
MODS: A User Guide Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru - Download [Link]
Antigen Tests for TB
Clearview TB ELISA Inverness Medical Innovations - Download [Link]