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Molecular identification and characterization of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by line probe assay: an approach for rapid diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Letters in applied microbiology - 1 Sept 2008
Bicmen C, Gunduz A T, Coskun M, Senol G, Ozkutuk N, Cirak A K, Ozacar R
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AIM: Early identification and characterization of rifampicin-resistant (R(r)) Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates recovered from the samples of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Aegean (West Anatolian) Region was intended. METHODS AND RESULTS: Sixty isolates [47 (78.3%) multidrug-resistant (MDR)], which were identified as M. tuberculosis complex and phenotypically resistant to rifampicin by both BACTEC...
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