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The MODS method for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis

Mark F Brady¹, Jorge Coronel², Robert H Gilman³, David AJ Moore⁴

¹The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, ²Laboratorio de Investigacion de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, ³Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ⁴Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Imperial College London

The microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility (MODS) assay is a low-cost, low-tech tool for high-performance detection of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB). This video describes the MODS liquid media culture method.