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Genotyping and clinical characteristics of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a tertiary care tuberculosis hospital in China.
BMC infectious diseases - 12 Jul 2013
Yuan Xiaoliang, Zhang Tiantuo, Kawakami Kazuyoshi, Zhu Jiaxin, Zheng Wenzheng, Li Hongtao, Deng Guofang, Tu Shaohua, Liu Weiyou
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of information on the clinical characteristics of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB in the Jiangxi Province of China; furthermore, data have not been reported on the utility of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat (MIRU-VNTR) analyses in genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from this...
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