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Population structure of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in Colombia.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2020
Rodríguez-Castillo Juan Germán, Llerena Claudia, Argoty-Chamorro Lorena, Guerra Julio, Couvin David, Rastogi Nalin, Murcia Martha Isabel
Abstract excerpt
Emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates is a major public health problem that threatens progress made in tuberculosis (TB) care and control worldwide. In Colombia, the prevalence of MDR tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has increased slowly but steadily since 2001. However, the population structure of the MDR-TB strains circulating in Colombia is sparsely known. In this work,...
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