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Molecular characterisation of isoniazid resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association - 1 Aug 2017
Ahmad Bashir, Idrees Muhammad, Ahmad Kafeel, Bashir Shumaila, Jamil Saira
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency of mutations in catalase-peroxidase and inhibin alpha genes in clinical isolates of isoniazid resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. METHODS: The study was conducted at Provincial Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Peshawar, Pakistan, from April 2015 to March 2016, and comprised sputum specimens obtained from patients of different ages. All the isolates were analysed...
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