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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
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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...
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