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Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from HIV-TB patients from two public hospitals at Bogotá, Colombia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2020
Beltrán-León Magda, Rodríguez-Castillo Juan Germán, Zozio Thierry, Rastogi Nalin, I Murcia Martha
Abstract excerpt
The co-infection of TB/HIV is an increasing problem for public health worldwide. In Colombia, of 13.871 confirmed cases of TB in 2016 (prevalence of 0,028%) 14% correspond to HIV co-infection. However, we have scarce information regarding genetic diversity of strains infecting HIV patients. In this study, we carried-out an active search of cases of TB in 356 HIV-infected individuals, who were enrolled in two...
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