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Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Wuhan, China: A retrospective molecular epidemiological study.
Medicine - 28 Jan 2022
Duan Qionghong, Zhang Zhengbin, Tian Dan, Zhou Meilan, Hu Yanjie, Wu Jun, Wang Tiantian, Li Yuehua, Chen Jun
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ABSTRACT: How multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) spreads and expands in Wuhan population is not clear. The study aimed to determine the transmission patterns of MDR-TB in Wuhan city, China, including 149 patients with MDR-TB.Tuberculosis isolates were genotyped by deletion-targeted multiplex polymerase chain reaction, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat typing, and...
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