%0 Journal Article %T Low-cost diagnostic test for susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis in rural Malawi %A Alison Norris %A Annie Zhang %A Carlton Evans %A Chancy Kamba %A Elly K. Chemey %A Enoch Jumbe %A Holden V. Kelley %A Jesse J. Kwiek %A Jordi B. Torrelles %A Juan I. Garc¨Şa %A Robert Krysiak %A Sabeen Sidiki %A Shu-Hua Wang %A Victor Mwapasa %A Xueliang J. Pan %J Archive of "African Journal of Laboratory Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.4102/ajlm.v7i1.690 %X Rural settings where molecular tuberculosis diagnostics are not currently available need easy-to-use tests that do not require additional processing or equipment. While acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear is the most common and often only tuberculosis diagnosis test performed in rural settings, it is labour intensive, has less-than-ideal sensitivity, and cannot assess tuberculosis drug susceptibility patterns %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018377/