Article
Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug resistance in different provinces of Papua New Guinea.
BMC microbiology - 5 Dec 2014
Ley Serej D, Harino Paul, Vanuga Kilagi, Kamus Ruben, Carter Robyn, Coulter Christopher, Pandey Sushil, Feldmann Julia, Ballif Marie, Siba Peter M, Phuanukoonnon Suparat, Gagneux Sebastien, Beck Hans-Peter
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country of the WHO Western Pacific Region, but so far research on drug resistance (DR) and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was only conducted in few provinces in the country. The aim of the present study was to obtain baseline data on the level of drug resistance and the genotypic diversity of circulating M....
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