S Sasi

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, 13419, Estonia

Routine use of a commercial kit for the digestion and decontamination of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary specimens collected for mycobacteria detection

L Rigouts

Institute of Tropical Medicine

Improving growth conditions in microtiter plates for fastidious lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

A K S Teo

Central Tuberculosis Laboratory

Validation of the Gene Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra for the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) DNA in Deparaffinised Clinical Samples

R Spannaus

Hain Lifescience GmbH, Hardwiesenstrasse 1, 72147 Nehren, Germany

Update of a commercial kit for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and a novel reagent for liquefaction and inactivation of native sputum

D Nadarajan

National and Supranational Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany

Prospective evaluation of targeted next-generation sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains in routine diagnostics in Germany.

M Mansjö

Public Health Agency of Sweden

The ddn mutation Trp20Stop and its association with lineage 4.5 and resistance to delamanid and pretomanid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

C Niccolai

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Validation of a novel LiquidArray based  assay for the rapid detection of tuberculous and nontuberculous mycobacteria from liquid and solid cultures

V VAlcheva

Institute of microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The usefulness of real-time PCR and RD4-PCR as molecular methods for rapid detection of bovine tuberculosis in Bulgaria

P Rupasinghe

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp

Re-evaluation of current critical concentrations of fourth-generation anti-TB fluoroquinolones in the MGIT 960 system

P Rupasinghe

Unit of Mycobacteriology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Middlebrook 7H11 reduces invalid results and turnaround time of phenotypic drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis

E Tagliani

Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Results and experiences from four rounds of external quality assessment for Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequencing in the EU/EEA

E C Conceicao

South African Medical Research Council Centre for Tuberculosis Research, DST NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Whole genome sequencing for comprehensive management of Bedaquiline-resistant tuberculosis: a case report