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Drug resistance among different genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from patients from Tiruvallur, South India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2011
Shanmugam Sivakumar, Selvakumar N, Narayanan Sujatha
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India continues to have the highest tuberculosis incidence, accounting for one fifth of the global incidence and 2/3rd of the cases in south East Asia. The TB burden is also augmented by multi drug resistance and HIV. Although inadequate and inappropriate treatment is responsible for drug resista...
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