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Emergence and treatment of multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in South Africa.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2012
Streicher Elizabeth M, Müller Borna, Chihota Violet, Mlambo Charmaine, Tait Marisa, Pillay Manormoney, Trollip Andre, Hoek Kim G P, Sirgel Frederick A, Gey van Pittius Nicolaas C, van Helden Paul D, Victor Thomas C, Warren Robin M
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) has reached alarming proportions in South Africa, draining valuable resources that are needed to fight drug susceptible TB. It is currently estimated that 9.6% of all TB cases have multi-drug resistant (MDR)-TB, thereby ranking South Africa as one of the highest MDR-TB burden countries in the world. Molecular epidemiological studies have demonstrated the complexity of the epidemic...
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