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Highly successful treatment outcome of multidrug‐resistant and genetic diversity of multidrug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Rwanda
8 May 2019
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OBJECTIVE: To determine prevalent MDR-TB genotypes and describe treatment outcome and bacteriology conversion in MDR-TB patients. METHODS: Review of laboratory records of 173 MDR-TB patients from all over Rwanda who initiated treatment under programmatic management of MDR-TB (PMDT) between 2014 and 2015. Fifty available archived isolates were genotyped by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units - variable...
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