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Genotyping of rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from western Turkey.
Annals of Saudi medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Cavusoglu Cengiz, Durmaz Riza, Bilgic Altinay, Gunal Selami
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BACKGROUND: Although the rate of multiple drug resistance is high, there is no published data on the transmission rate of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Aegean region of western Turkey that are based on molecular methods. METHODS: IS6110 and pTBN12 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods were used for typing M. tuberculosis strains isolated from 26 sputum samples from...
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