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Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Eastern Taiwan.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Jul 2010
Hsu A-H, Lin C-B, Lee Y-S, Chiang C-Y, Chen L-K, Tsai Y-S, Lee J-J
Abstract excerpt
Taiwan initiated a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) programme in May 2007. Seventy-seven MDR-TB patients were enrolled from May 2007 to February 2009 in Eastern Taiwan. Isolates of 73 (94%) patients were available for genotyping using spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR (mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeats). Spoligotyping results indicated the Beijing strain as the...
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