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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype and risk for treatment failure and relapse, Vietnam.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2003
Lan Nguyen Thi Ngoc, Lien Hoang Thi Kim, Tung Le B, Borgdorff Martien W, Kremer Kristin, van Soolingen Dick
Abstract excerpt
Among 2,901 new smear-positive tuberculosis cases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 40 cases of treatment failure and 39 relapsing cases were diagnosed. All initial and follow-up Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of these case-patients had (nearly) identical restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns, and the Beijing genotype was a significant risk factor for treatment failure and relapse (odds ratio 2.8,...
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