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A systematic follow-up of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistance and associated genotypic lineages in the French Departments of the Americas over a seventeen-year period.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2014
Millet Julie, Streit Elisabeth, Berchel Mylène, Bomer Anne-Gaël, Schuster Franziska, Paasch Delaina, Vanhomwegen Jessica, Cadelis Gilbert, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
THE population of the French Departments of the Americas (FDA) is highly influenced by the intense migratory flows with mainland france and surrounding countries of the Caribbean and Latin America, some of which have high incidence rates of tuberculosis (Haiti: 230/100,000; Guyana: 111/100,000; and Suriname: 145/100,000) and drug resistance. Since the development of drug resistance to conventional antituberculous...
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