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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






Sputum Microscopy

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]

Signature Mapping TBDx - Technical Data Sheet

Guardian Technologies - 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)

COBAS® TaqMan® MTB Test

cobas, Roche, USA - Download [Link]

AMPLIFIED MTD® (Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct) Test

Gen-Probe, CA, USA - Download [Link]

COBAS® TaqMan® MTB Test

Roche Diagnostics - Download [Link]

Xpert MTB/RIF - Two hour detection of MTB and resistance to rifampicin

Cepheid, USA - Download [Link]

LightCycler Mycobacterium Detection Kit

Roche Diagnostics, Germany - Download [Link]

RealArt M. tuberculosis TM PCR Reagents kit

Abbott Molecular - 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]