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High incidence of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tertiary care center in Mumbai, India.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Mar 2005
Almeida Deepak, Rodrigues Camilla, Ashavaid Tester F, Lalvani Ajit, Udwadia Zarir F, Mehta Ajita
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We report a high frequency (35%) of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates recovered in and around Mumbai, India. Further restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing showed that these strains were closely related. We also report a high frequency of the Delhi genotype (31% of isolates). Our data indicate considerable ongoing transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis...
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