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Clinical impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing genotype strain infection on aged patients in Taiwan.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2008
Feng Jia-Yih, Su Wei-Juin, Tsai Cheng-Chien, Chang Shi-Chuan
Abstract excerpt
The impact of W-Beijing genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis on treatment outcome was evaluated in 249 newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients. No significant difference in the treatment outcome was found between the W-Beijing and non-W-Beijing groups. However, a poor outcome was more common in the...
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