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Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Texas and Mexico.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2002
Quitugua Teresa N, Seaworth Barbara J, Weis Stephen E, Taylor Jeffery P, Gillette J Seb, Rosas Ishmael I, Jost Kenneth C, Magee D Mitchel, Cox Rebecca A
Abstract excerpt
To examine the transmission of drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis between Texas and Mexico, Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates resistant to one or more of the first-line antimycobacterial drugs were obtained from 606 patients who resided in Texas and 313 patients who resided in Mexico, primarily within the state of Tamaulipas. The isolates were genotyped by IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism...
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