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Drug-resistant tuberculous meningitis.
Expert review of anti-infective therapy - 1 Jun 2013
Garg Ravindra K, Jain Amita, Malhotra Hardeep S, Agrawal Avinash, Garg Rajiv
Abstract excerpt
Drug-resistant tuberculosis, including drug-resistant tuberculous meningitis, is an emerging health problem in many countries. An association with Beijing strains and drug resistance-related mutations, such as mutations in katG and rpoB genes, has been found. The pathology, clinical features and neuroimaging characteristics of drug-resistant tuberculous meningitis are similar to drug-responsive tuberculous...
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