Validation of an immunochromatographic assay kit for the identification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Al-Habib Omar Said Toihir; Voahangy Rasolofo; Samuel Hermas Andrianarisoa; Gabriel Marie Ranjalahy; Herimanana Ramarokoto PAGE: 777-780 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000600022

Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from alow-endemic setting in northwestern state of Paraná in Southern Brazil Erika Noda Noguti; Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite; Ana Carolina Malaspina; Adolfo Carlos Barreto Santos; Rosário Dominguez Crespo Hirata; Mario Hiroyuki Hirata; Elsa Massae Mamizuka; Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso PAGE: 779-785 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000600008

Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype are rarely observed in tuberculosis patients in South America Viviana Ritacco; Beatriz López; Patricia I Cafrune; Lucilaine Ferrazoli; Philip N Suffys; Norma Candia; Lucy Vásquez; Teresa Realpe; Jorge Fernández; Karla V Lima; Jeannete Zurita; Jaime Robledo; Maria L Rossetti; Afranio L Kritski; Maria A Telles; Juan C Palomino; Herre Heersma; Dick van Soolingen; Kristin Kremer; Lucía Barrera PAGE: 489-492 | DOI: S0074-02762008000500014

RFLP clusters of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from the Indian Ocean Region: local and South Asian characteristics VoahangyRasolofo Razanamparany ; Herimanana H Ramarokoto; Elie J Vololonirina; Tiana Rasolonavalona; Alain Michault; Naidu Pyndiah; Rajbunsing Seenundun; Per Sandven; Suzanne Chanteau PAGE: 441-443 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000300007

Comparative evaluation of the microplate nitrate reductase assay and the rezasurin microtitre assay for the rapid detection of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates  Ahmet Yilmaz Coban; Meltem Uzun; Alper Akgunes; Belma Durupinar PAGE: 578-581 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000500002

Fast test for assessing the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid and rifampin by real-time PCR  Maria Gisele Gonçalves; Lucila Okuyama Fukasawa; Rosangela Siqueira Oliveira; Maristela Marques Salgado; Lee H Harrison; Kathleen A Shutt; Claudio Tavares Sacchi PAGE: 903-908 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700011

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on amplification and sequencing of the oxyR pseudogene from stored Ziehl-Neelsen-stained sputum smears in Brazil Marcio Roberto Silva; Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães; Vania Maria de Oliveira; Aline dos Santos Moreira; Ronaldo Rodrigues da Costa; Kelly Cristina Ferreira Abi-Zaid; Adalgiza da Silva Rocha; Philip Noel Suffys PAGE: 09-15 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100002

Evaluation of Lionex TB kits and mycobacterial antigens for IgG and IgA detection in cerebrospinal fluid from tuberculosis meningitis patients Isabela Gama Sardella; Mahavir Singh; Susanne Kumpfer; Rafael Ribeiro Heringer; Maria Helena Féres Saad; Marzia Puccioni Sohler PAGE: 722-728 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500022

Use of in-house PCR for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in BACTEC broth cultures of respiratory specimens Ana Cláudia Carvalho Gouveia; Kathleen D. Eisenach; Solange Alves Vinhas; Fabiola Karla Corrêa Ribeiro; Renata Lyrio Peres; Reynaldo Dietze; David Jamil Hadad; Moisés Palaci PAGE: 386-391 | DOI: S0074-02762008000400012

Characterization of ndh gene of isoniazid resistant and susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Brazil Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso; Marco Antonio Cardoso; Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite; Daisy Nakamura Sato; Elsa Masae Mamizuka; Rosário Dominguez Crespo Hirata; Fernando Fiúza de Mello; Mario Hiroyuki Hirata PAGE: 59-61 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000100009

Evaluation of rapid alternative methods for drug susceptibility testing in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Luciano Mengatto; Yosena Chiani; María Susana Imaz PAGE: 535-542 | DOI: S0074-02762006000500009

Detection of rifampin resistance patterns in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in Iran by polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism and direct sequencing methods Bahram Nasr Isfahani; Akbar Tavakoli; Mansoor Salehi, Mehdi Tazhibi PAGE: 597-602 | DOI: S0074-02762006000600004

The resumption of consumption – a review on tuberculosis Rodrigo Gay Ducati; Antonio Ruffino-Netto; Luiz Augusto Basso; Diógenes Santiago Santos PAGE: 697-714 | DOI: S0074-02762006000700001

A rapid detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by a nitrate reductase assay on blood agar Ahmet Yilmaz Coban; Yeliz Tanriverdi Cayci; Aydin Deveci; Alper Akgunes; Meltem Uzun; Belma Durupinar PAGE: 378-380 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300022

Spoligotyping of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil Silvana Spíndola de Miranda; Wânia da Silva Carvalho; Philip Noel Suffys; Afrânio Lineu Kritski; Martha Oliveira; Noemi Zarate; Thierry Zozio; Nalin Rastogi; Brigitte Gicquel PAGE: 267-273 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000300003

Tuberculosis patients co-infected with Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an urban area of Brazil Marcio Roberto Silva, Adalgiza da Silva Rocha, Ronaldo Rodrigues da Costa, Andrea Padilha de Alencar, Vania Maria de Oliveira, Antônio Augusto Fonseca Júnior, Mariana Lázaro Sales, Marina de Azevedo Issa, Paulo Martins Soares Filho, Omara Tereza Vianello Pereira, Eduardo Calazans dos Santos, Rejane Silva Mendes, Ângela Maria de Jesus Ferreira, Pedro Moacyr Pinto Coelho Mota, Philip Noel Suffys, Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães PAGE: 321-327 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108032013010

Plasmid-based controls to detect rpoB mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by quantitative polymerase chain reaction-high-resolution melting Joas Lucas da Silva ; Gabriela Guimaraes Sousa Leite; Gisele Medeiros Bastos; Beatriz Cacciacarro Lucas; Daniel Keniti Shinohara; Joice Sayuri Takinami; Marcelo Miyata; Cristina Moreno Fajardo; André Ducati Luchessi; Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite; Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso; Rosario Dominguez Crespo Hirata; Mario Hiroyuki Hirata PAGE: 106-109 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762013000100017

A population-based study of first and second-line drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-burden area of the Mexico/United States border Pola Becerril-Montes, Salvador Said-Fernández, Julieta Luna-Herrera, Guillermo Caballero-Olín, José Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Herminia Guadalupe Martínez-Rodríguez, Gerardo Padilla-Rivas, Elsa Nancy-Garza-Treviño, Gloria María Molina-Salinas PAGE: 160-166 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108022013006

Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA and genetic markers for Isoniazid resistance in Ziehl-Neelsen stained slides Graziele Lima Bello, Franciele Costa Leite Morais, Sheile Pinheiro de Jesus, Jonas Michel Wolf, Mirela Gehlen, Isabela Neves de Almeida, Lida Jouca de Assis Figueiredo, Tainá dos Santos Soares, Regina Bones Barcellos, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Silvana Spíndola de Miranda, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190407

A new rapid colourimetric method for testing Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility to isoniazid and rifampicin: a crystal violet decolourisation assay Ahmet Yilmaz Coban PAGE: 246-249 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140297

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Determined by the E Test, Löwenstein-Jensen Proportion, and DNA Sequencing Methods among Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Discrepancies, Preliminary Results Maria Inês Moura Freixo, Paulo CS Caldas, Abbadi Said, Fátima Martins, Rossana Coimbra Brito,Leila de Souza Fonseca, Maria Helena Féres Saad PAGE: 107-110

Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by the Broth Microdilution Method with 7H9 Broth Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Asuman Birinci, Bora Ekinci, Belma Durupinar PAGE: 111-113

Standardization of in-house Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at the Reference Tropical Disease Hospital in the State of Goiás, Brazil Márcia Alves Vasconcelos Rodrigues, Álvaro Bisol Serafini, Marieta de Souza Pereira, Thathiane Dias da Silva, Marcelo Fouad Rabahi, Suely Lemes de Alves, André Kipnis PAGE: 415-419

Rapid detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the malachite green decolourisation assay Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Meltem Uzun PAGE: 1021-1023 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130697

IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolated from Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Campinas, Brazil. Evidence of Intercontinental Distribution of Strains Ana Lucia Roscani Calusni, Gláucia Nogueira Roscani, Maria Cecília Barisson Villares, Hanna Soini, Edward A Graviss, Marcelo de Carvalho Ramos PAGE: 655-658

Mtp-40 and Alpha Antigen Gene Fragment Amplification for the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Colombian Clinical Specimens Rosalba Alfonso, Rosa Elena Romero, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Luis Angel Murillo PAGE: 1157-1163

IS6110 Fingerprinting of Sensitive and Resistant Strains (1991-1992) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Colombia Jorge Enrique Gómez-Marin, Clara Inés León Franco, Martha Inirida Guerrero, Leen Rigouts, Françoise Portaels PAGE: 1005-1008

Comparison of the Proportion Method With Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube and E-test for Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Asuman Birinci, Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Bora Ekinci, Belma Durupinar PAGE: 351-352

Insights from paleomicrobiology into the indigenous peoples of pre-colonial America - A Review Millie I Darling, Helen D Donoghue PAGE: 131-139 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140589

Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis activity and cytotoxicity of Calophyllum brasiliense Cambess (Clusiaceae) Claudia Terencio Agostinho Pires, Mislaine Adriana Brenzan, Regiane Bertin de Lima Scodro, Diógenes Aparício Garcia Cortez, Luciana Dias Ghiraldi Lopes, Vera Lucia Dias Siqueira, Rosilene Fressatti Cardoso PAGE: 324-329 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130323

In house reverse membrane hybridisation assay versus GenoType MTBDRplus and their performance to detect mutations in the genes rpoB, katG and inhA Sergio Luiz Montego Ferreira Junior, Elis Regina Dalla Costa, Paula Gonçalves dos Santos, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Marcia Susana Nunes Silva, Leonardo Souza Esteves, Martha Maria Oliveira, Raquel de Abreu Maschmann, Afrânio Lineu Kritski, Philip Noel Suffys, Maria Lucia Rosa Rossetti PAGE: 307-314 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130469

Transmission of Tuberculosis in Havana, Cuba: a Molecular Epidemiological Study by IS6110 Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Typing R Diaz, RI Gomez, E Restrepo, R Rumbaut, J Sevy-Court, JA Valdivia, D van Soolingen PAGE: 437-443

Mutations in the rpoB Gene of Rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Isolated in Brazil and France S Spindola de Miranda, AL Kritski, I Filliol, C Mabilat, G Panteix,E Drouet PAGE: 247-250

A Comparative Study on the Different Staining Methods and Number of Specimens for the Detection of Acid Fast Bacilli Mustafa Ulukanligil, Gonul Aslan, Sami Tasçi PAGE: 855-858

Standartization of Broth Microdilution Method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clarice Queico Fujimura Leite, Ana Laura Remédio Zeni Beretta, Ivone Shizuko Anno, Maria Alice da Silva Telles PAGE: 127-129

Predictive Value of the Acid Fast Smear for Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Respiratory Specimens in a Reference Center of HIV/Aids in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marcus B Conde, Cesar M Figueira, Renata Moraes, Leila S Fonseca,Kathy DeRiemer, Afranio L Kritski PAGE: 787-790

Molecular Genetic Analysis of Multi-drug Resistance in Indian Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Noman Siddiqi, Md. Shamim, NK Jain, Ashok Rattan, Amol Amin, VM Katoch, SK Sharma, Seyed E Hasnain PAGE: 589-594

Stained Smears as a Source of DNA Jackeline Alger, Martha C Acosta, Caterin Lozano, Carmelita Velasquez, Luz Angela Labrada PAGE: 589-591

Co-Infection with HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Immunologic Interactions, Disease Progression, and Survival John L Ho PAGE: 385-387

Correlations between major risk factors and closely related Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates grouped by three current genotyping procedures: a population-based study in northeast Mexico Katia Peñuelas-Urquides, Herminia Guadalupe Martínez-Rodríguez, José Antonio Enciso-Moreno, Gloria María Molina-Salinas, Beatriz Silva-Ramírez, Gerardo Raymundo Padilla-Rivas, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Víctor Manuel Torres-de-la-Cruz, Yazmin Berenice Martínez-Martínez, Jorge Luis Ortega-García, Elsa Nancy Garza-Treviño, Leonor Enciso-Moreno, Odila Saucedo-Cárdenas, Pola Becerril-Montes, Salvador Said-Fernández PAGE: 814-819 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130550

Mycobacterium tuberculosis epitope-specific interferon-g production in healthy Brazilians reactive and non-reactive to tuberculin skin test Bosco Christiano Maciel da Silva, Maria Fernanda Rios Grassi, Raimundo Coutinho, Rita Elizabeth Moreira Mascarenhas, Viviana Nilla Olavarria, Adriana Coutinho-Borgo, Jorge Kalil, Edecio Cunha-Neto, Simone Gonçalves Fonseca PAGE: 999-1004 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276140193

Evaluation of crystal violet decolorization assay for minimal inhibitory concentration detection of primary antituberculosis drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates* Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Ahmet Ugur Akbal, Meltem Uzun, Yeliz Tanriverdi Cayci, Asuman Birinci, Belma Durupinar PAGE: 454-459 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160082

Performance of an in-house real-time polymerase chain reaction for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in laboratory routine diagnosis from a high burden setting Juliana Failde Gallo, Juliana Maira Watanabe Pinhata, Erica Chimara, Maria Gisele Gonçalves, Lucila Okuyama Fukasawa, Rosangela Siqueira de Oliveira PAGE: 545-550 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160048

Tuberculosis associated factors caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the RDRio genotype Eloise Brasil Moraes, Letícia Slompo, Amanda Juliane Finardi, Heloisa Paro Pedro da Silveira, Luciana Ruiz, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Virginia Bodelão Richini, Philip Suffys, Carlos Magno Castelo Branco Fortaleza, Ricardo Cavalcanti, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista PAGE: 182-187 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160347

Characterisation of iunH gene knockout strain from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Anne Drumond Villela, Valnês da Silva Rodrigues-Junior, Antônio Frederico Michel Pinto, Priscila Lamb Wink, Zilpa Adriana Sánchez-Quitian, Guilherme Oliveira Petersen, Maria Martha Campos, Luiz Augusto Basso, Diógenes Santiago Santos PAGE: 203-208 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160462

An evaluation of false-positive rifampicin resistance on the Xpert MTB/RIF Yeliz Tanriverdi Cayci, Kemal Bilgin, Ahmet Yilmaz Coban, Asuman Birinci, Belma Durupu0131nar DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170051

Construction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cdd knockout and evaluation of invasion and growth in macrophages Anne Drumond Villela, Valnês S Rodrigues-Junior, Antônio Frederico Michel Pinto, Virgínia Carla de Almeida Falcão, Zilpa Adriana Sánchez-Quitian, Paula Eichler, Cristiano Valim Bizarro, Luiz Augusto Basso, Diógenes Santiago Santos DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170105

Mycobacterium tuberculosis promotes genomic instability in macrophages Jorge Castro-Garza, Miriam Lorena Luévano-Martínez, Licet Villarreal-Treviño, Jaime Gosálvez, José Luis Fernández, Martha Imelda Dávila-Rodríguez, Catalina García-Vielma, Silvia González-Hernández, Elva Irene Cortés-Gutiérrez PAGE: 161-166 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170281

Cutaneous tuberculosis and HIV infection at a referral centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Danielle Mann, Flávia Marinho Sant’Anna, Carolina Arana Stanis Schmaltz, Dayvison Francis Saraiva Freitas, Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla, Solange Cesar Cavalcante, Maria Clara Gutierrez-Galhardo DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180184

Malaria and tuberculosis as diseases of neglected populations: state of the art in chemotherapy and advances in the search for new drugs Renan Vinicius de Araújo, Soraya Silva Santos, Luccas Missfeldt Sanches, Jeanine Giarolla, Omar El Seoud, Elizabeth Igne Ferreira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200229

Genomic analysis of Latin American-Mediterranean family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains from Kazakhstan  Pavel Tarlykov Sabina Atavliyeva, Arike Alenova, Yerlan Ramankulov DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200215

Evaluation of drug susceptibility profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 1 from Brazil based on whole genome sequencing and phenotypic methods Arthur Emil dos Santos Guimarães, Abhinav Sharma, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Liliana Rutaihwa, Jedson Ferreira Cardoso, Marília Lima da Conceição, Lizânia Borges Spinassé, Edson Machado, Maria Luiza Lopes, Rafael Silva Duarte, Sebastien Gagneux, Philip Noel Suffys, Karla Valéria Batista Lima, Emilyn Costa Conceição DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200520

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil before the whole genome sequencing era: a literature review  Emilyn Costa Conceição, Richard Steiner Salvato, Karen Machado Gomes, Arthur Emil dos Santos Guimarães, Marília Lima da Conceição, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães, Abhinav Sharma, Ismari Perini Furlaneto, Regina Bones Barcello, Valdes Roberto Bollela, Lívia Maria Pala Anselmo, Maria Carolina Sisco, Cristina Viana Niero, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Guislaine Réfrégier, Maria Cristina da Silva Lourenço, Harrison Magdinier Gomes, Artemir Coelho de Brito, Marcos Catanho, Rafael Silva Duarte, Philip Noel Suffys, Karla Valéria Batista Lima DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200517

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors- based drugs are effective to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and promote the sensibility for rifampicin in MDR strain Adrián Rodríguez-Carlos, Yolanda Jacobo-Delgado, Alan Orlando Santos-Mena, Mariana H García-Hernández, Luis Adrian De Jesus-Gonzalez, Edgar E Lara-Ramirez, Bruno Rivas-Santiago DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230143

PPE59 antibodies in tuberculous patients and potential use for diagnosis when assayed with other rapid biomarkers Ana Carla de Paulo Mulinari, Isabela Gama Sardella, Vania Maria C da Silva, Alberto Matteelli, Anna Cristina C Carvalho, Maria Helena Féres Saad DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230183