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Tuberculosis patients co-infected with Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an urban area of Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 May 2013
Silva Marcio Roberto, Rocha Adalgiza da Silva, da Costa Ronaldo Rodrigues, de Alencar Andrea Padilha, de Oliveira Vania Maria, Fonseca Júnior Antônio Augusto, Sales Mariana Lázaro, Issa Marina de Azevedo, Filho Paulo Martins Soares, Pereira Omara Tereza Vianello, dos Santos Eduardo Calazans, Mendes Rejane Silva, Ferreira Angela Maria de Jesus, Mota Pedro Moacyr Pinto Coelho, Suffys Philip Noel, Guimarães Mark Drew Crosland
Abstract excerpt
In this cross-sectional study, mycobacteria specimens from 189 tuberculosis (TB) patients living in an urban area in Brazil were characterised from 2008-2010 using phenotypic and molecular speciation methods (pncA gene and oxyR pseudogene analysis). Of these samples, 174 isolates simultaneously g...
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