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Molecular Epidemiology of Rifampicin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay in Renal Transplant Recipients: A Single-Center Experience.
Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 1 Apr 2023
Patel Minaxi H, Kanodia Kamla, Nigam Lovelesh, Patel Rashmi, Suthar Kamlesh, Patel Himanshu, Kute Vivek, Engineer Divyesh, Chauhan Sanshriti, Meshram Hari Shankar
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OBJECTIVES: There are scarce data on the incidence and resistance pattern of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among kidney transplant recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective, single- center study of kidney transplantrecipients suspected of M. tuberculosis infection. The GeneXpert assay we used detected mutations in the rpoB gene that confer rifampicin resistance using 5...
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