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Detection of Beijing strains of MDR M. tuberculosis and their association with drug resistance mutations in katG, rpoB, and embB genes.
BMC infectious diseases - 14 Oct 2020
Gupta Anamika, Sinha Pallavi, Nema Vijay, Gupta Pramod K, Chakraborty Pampi, Kulkarni Savita, Rastogi Nalin, Anupurba Shampa
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BACKGROUND: Molecular epidemiological studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) are the core of current research to find out the association of the M. tuberculosis genotypes with its outbreak and transmission. The high prevalence of the Beijing genotype strain among multidrug resistance (MDR) TB has already been reported in various studies around India. The overall objective of this study was to detect the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antitubercular Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Catalase
- Child
- DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans