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Drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the Beijing genotype does not spread in Sweden.
PloS one - 28 May 2010
Ghebremichael Solomon, Groenheit Ramona, Pennhag Alexandra, Koivula Tuija, Andersson Emmi, Bruchfeld Judith, Hoffner Sven, Romanus Victoria, Källenius Gunilla
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Drug resistant (DR) and multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) is increasing worldwide. In some parts of the world 10% or more of new TB cases are MDR. The Beijing genotype is a distinct genetic lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is distributed worldwide, and has caused large outbreaks of MDR-TB. It has been proposed that certain lineages of M. tuberculosis, such as the Beijing...
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