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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotypes and Drug Susceptibility Test Results from Timor-Leste: A Pilot Study.
Genes - 27 Sept 2022
Sarmento Nevio, Meumann Ella M, Pereira Helder M, Lopes Constantino, Globan Maria, Hall Charlotte, Di Palma Matthew, Hersch Nicole, Horan Kristy, Ralph Anna P, Francis Joshua R
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) is prevalent and a major public health problem in Timor-Leste. The government of Timor-Leste is prioritising the surveillance of TB and drug-susceptibility testing (DST) to understand the burden of TB and TB drug resistance in the country. Moreover, little is known about the origin of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in Timor-Leste. This study reports MTB DST and sequencing for Timor-Leste. A...
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