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Genotypic and phenotypic drug-resistance detection and prevalence of heteroresistance in patients with isoniazid- and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia
2 Jan 2022
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To assess the agreement between genotypic and phenotypic methods for detecting drug resistance, and examine the prevalence of heteroresistance among isoniazid (INH)- and multidrug/rifampicin-resistant (MDR/RR) TB. In total, 127 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates, including 65 MDR/RR and 62 INH resistant, were used. First-line drug susceptibility testing (DST) was performed using the LJ method to determine...
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