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Drug resistance and genomic variations among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from The Nile Delta, Egypt.
Scientific reports - 2 Sept 2024
Soliman May S, Hansen Chungyi H, Hanafy Mostafa, Shawky Sherine, Rashed Heba, Abdullah Mohamed, Soliman Noha Salah, Gad Maha A, Khairat Sahar, El-Kholy Amani, Talaat Adel M
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Tuberculosis is a global public health concern. Earlier reports suggested the emergence of high rates of drug resistant tuberculosis in Egypt. This study included 102 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis collected from two reference laboratories in Cairo and Alexandria. All clinical isolates were sub-cultured on Löwenstein-Jensen medium and analyzed using both BD BACTEC MGIT 960 SIRE Kit and standard diffusion...
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