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Pyrazinamide-monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2001
Hannan M M, Desmond E P, Morlock G P, Mazurek G H, Crawford J T
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium bovis is naturally resistant to the antituberculosis drug pyrazinamide (PZA). To determine whether all Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates demonstrating PZA monoresistance were truly M. bovis, we examined the phenotype and genotype of isolates reported as PZA monoresistant in five counties in California from January 1996 through June 1999. Isolates reported by local laboratories to be PZA...
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