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Independent Origin of Mono-Rifampin-Resistant Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Patients With AIDS
1 Feb 1996
Abstract excerpt
Historically, infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been treated simultaneously with isoniazid and rifampin. As a consequence of this combined therapy, strains resistant only to rifampin were rarely recovered. However, recently there has been an increasing number of reports describing HIV-positive patients infected with mono-rifampin-resistant M. tuberculosis strains. Organisms cultured from seven...
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