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Genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients at risk of drug resistance in Bolivia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2013
Monteserin Johana, Camacho Mirtha, Barrera Lucía, Palomino Juan Carlos, Ritacco Viviana, Martin Anandi
Abstract excerpt
Bolivia ranks among the 10 Latin American countries with the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. In view of this, and of the lacking information on the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the country, we explored genotype associations with drug resistance and clustering by analyzing isolates collected in 2010 from 100 consecutive TB patients at risk of drug...
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