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[Tuberculosis due to multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype identified by DNA fingerprinting: the first case identified in Hungary].
Orvosi hetilap - 28 Aug 2005
Lukács Judit, Sör Eva, Bohács Anika, Tolnay Edina, Bártfai Zoltán, Várdi-Visy Katalin, Somoskövi Akos
Abstract excerpt
In a 28 years old Mongolian woman in whom pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed a poly- and multidrug (isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, streptomycin) resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was isolated from sputum in 2002. Since the patient was from a country with high tuberculosis incidence it was conceivable that she had been infected by a strain with primary resistance in Mongolia. In order to...
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