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Morphological variability and cell-wall deficiency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis 'heteroresistant' strains.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Aug 2005
Michailova L, Kussovski V, Radoucheva T, Jordanova M, Berger W, Rinder H, Markova N
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SETTING: Sofia State Hospital for Tuberculosis Treatment, Bulgaria. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the morphology of two 'heteroresistant' clinical isolates and one non-heteroresistant isolate, all isolated from newly diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) patients, as well as the reference strain H37Rv. Heteroresistant isolates contained clonally-related sensitive and drug-resistant organisms which could subsequently be...
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