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Prevalence and genetic characterization of second-line drug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Rural China.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2013
Hu Yi, Hoffner Sven, Wu Linlin, Zhao Qi, Jiang Weili, Xu Biao
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This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of resistance to second-line antituberculosis (anti-TB) drugs and its association with resistance-related mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in China. In the present study, we collected 380 isolates from a population-based study in China and tested the drug susceptibility to first- and selected second-line drugs. These results were compared with...
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