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Characterization of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Nepal.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2013
Poudel Ajay, Maharjan Bhagwan, Nakajima Chie, Fukushima Yukari, Pandey Basu D, Beneke Antje, Suzuki Yasuhiko
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The emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has raised public health concern for global control of TB. Although molecular characterization of drug resistance-associated mutations in multidrug-resistant isolates in Nepal has been made, mutations in XDR isolates and their genotypes have not been reported previously. In this study, we identified and characterized 13 XDR Mycobacterium...
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