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Phylogenomic assessment of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Beira, Mozambique.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Mar 2020
Namburete Evangelina Inacio, Dippenaar Anzaan, Conceição Emilyn Costa, Feliciano Cinara, Nascimento Margarida Maria Passeri do, Peronni Kamila Chagas, Silva Wilson Araújo, Ferro Josefo João, Harrison Lee H, Warren Robin Mark, Bollela Valdes Roberto
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mozambique is a high-burden tuberculosis (TB) country where TB/HIV co-infection and drug resistant TB (DR-TB) incidence is increasing. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) comprehensively describes the molecular epidemiology of TB, allows prediction of DR-TB phenotypes, lineages strains identification and better understanding of transmission chains. OBJECTIVE: To describe genetic diversity of DR-TB...
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