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Impact of drug resistance on fitness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing genotype.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Nov 2004
Toungoussova Olga S, Caugant Dominique A, Sandven Per, Mariandyshev Andrey O, Bjune Gunnar
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing genotype became a common cause of tuberculosis during the past years and they are often associated with drug resistance. The biological factors facilitating the selection and wide dissemination of these strains are not known. To determine how acquisition of drug resistance affected growth of strains of the W-Beijing genotype, the growth of 55 M. tuberculosis...
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