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Molecular epidemiological features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an endemic region of Henan Province, China.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Aug 2012
Li H, Yang H Y, Ma X G, Ma S W, Zhang Y
Abstract excerpt
Henan Province is one of the regions with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in China. Among isolates collected from Zhongmou County, Henan, 21.28% (10/47) of those from 2001 and 22.95% (10/61) from 2007 were resistant to at least one drug (isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol or streptomycin); 90.74% (98/108) of the isolates were from the Beijing family, and 108 exhibited 105 different mycobacterial interspersed...
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