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Drug resistance characteristics and cluster analysis of M. tuberculosis in Chinese patients with multiple episodes of anti-tuberculosis treatment.
BMC infectious diseases - 7 Jan 2016
Hu Yi, Zhao Qi, Werngren Jim, Hoffner Sven, Diwan Vinod K, Xu Biao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) patients with multiple episodes of anti-TB treatment represent an important source of TB transmission, as well as a serious threat to the control of drug resistant TB, due to the high risk of multidrug and extensively drug resistance (MDR/XDR) and elongating infectiousness of this patient group. In this study we analyzed the possible risk of development and transmission of MDR and...
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