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Characteristics of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in southern Brazil.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2012
Perizzolo Paulo F, Dalla Costa Elis R, Ribeiro Andrezza W, Spies Fernanda S, Ribeiro Marta O, Dias Cláudia F, Unis Gisela, Almeida da Silva Pedro, Gomes Harrison M, Suffys Philip N, Rossetti Maria Lucia R
Abstract excerpt
A major threat to tuberculosis (TB) control programs is the emergence of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains that cause TB that cannot be cured by standard anti-TB drug regimens. Because few data exist on MDR-TB in this region of the country, we performed an epidemiologic study that combined conventional and molecular analysis of MDR-TB cases from Rio Grande do Sul (RS) that were diagnosed in this...
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