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Detection of multidrug and extensively drug-resistance and mutation pattern in geriatric patients from North Indian referral institute.
The Indian journal of tuberculosis - 1 Jan 2022
Singhal Ritu, Sah Grish C, Sethi Prabhpreet, Singh Anjali, Kumar Gavish, Myneedu Vithal Prasad
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INTRODUCTION: Geriatric population are predisposed to reactivation to tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistance (MDR) due to deteriorated immune system. Limited data is available in this population hence present study is undertaken to study drug resistance and associated mutations among geriatric presumptive DR-TB patients by genotypic methods METHODS: From October 2011 to December 2018, demographic...
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