Article
Population-based molecular epidemiological study of tuberculosis in Malatya, Turkey.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 2007
Durmaz Riza, Zozio Thierry, Gunal Selami, Allix Caroline, Fauville-Dufaux Maryse, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
This investigation describes drug resistance patterns and genotyping data on a total of 145 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated between 2000 and 2004 in Malatya, Turkey. Drug susceptibility results indicated a total of 20% resistant and 4.8% of multidrug-resistant isolates. Spoligotyping resulted in 25 unique patterns and 120 strains in 19 clusters (2 to 33 strains per cluster). When the results were...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antitubercular Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
