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[Sensitivity to levofloxacin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with various phenotype isolated from patients with newly diagnosed and chronic tuberculosis].
Antibiotiki i khimioterapiia = Antibiotics and chemoterapy [sic] - 1 Jan 2002
Vishnevskiĭ B I, Narvskaia O V, Mokrousov I V, Istomin E A, Otten T F
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to levofloxacin of 56 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, isolated from 22 patients with first estimated and 84 patients with chronic tuberculosis was investigated. Ratio of multi-drug resistance achieved 54.5 per cent in first group and 94.1 per cent in the second group. 23 (41.1 per cent) isolated strains belonged to individual genotypes, 33 (58.9 per cent)--to Beijing group. All mycobacteria...
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