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From multidrug-resistant to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Lisbon, Portugal: the stepwise mode of resistance acquisition.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2013
Perdigão João, Macedo Rita, Silva Carla, Machado Diana, Couto Isabel, Viveiros Miguel, Jordao Luisa, Portugal Isabel
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OBJECTIVES: The development and transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) constitutes a serious threat to the effective control of TB in several countries. Here, in an attempt to further elucidate the dynamics of the acquisition of resistance to second-line drugs and investigate an eventual role for eis promoter mutations in aminoglycoside resistance, we have studied a set of...
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