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Transmission of extensively drug-resistant and multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in families identified by genotyping.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Feb 2013
Yan Li-ping, Qin Lian-hua, Zhang Qing, Sun Hua, Han Min, Xiao He-ping
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BACKGROUND: Diagnosis and appropriate treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) remain major challenges. We sought to elucidate that persons who share a household with drug resistance tuberculosis patients are at high risk for primary drug resistance tuberculosis and how to prevent these outbreaks. METHODS: We used 12-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit and 7-locus variable-number tandem...
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