Insight into multidrug-resistant Beijing genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Myanmar.

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2018.06.009

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Insight into multidrug-resistant Beijing genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Myanmar.

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Nov 2018

San Lai Lai, Aye Khin Saw, Oo Nan Aye Thida, Shwe Mu Mu, Fukushima Yukari, Gordon Stephen V, Suzuki Yasuhiko, Nakajima Chie

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OBJECTIVES: Myanmar is a World Health Organization high tuberculosis (TB) burden country with a high multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB burden. Of significance, a high prevalence of the Beijing genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) among MDR-MTB has been reported previously. A detailed genetic characterization of TB clinical isolates was performed in order to explore whether there is an association between the...

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Female
Genotype
Humans
Minisatellite Repeats
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant

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PMID: 29936318
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.06.009

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