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Widespread Dissemination of a Drug‐Susceptible Strain ofMycobacterium tuberculosis
1 Aug 1997
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In New York City, a large proportion of new tuberculosis cases has been caused by 1 drug-susceptible strain (called C strain) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Between 1991 and 1994, among >600 tuberculosis patients consecutively identified in four large hospitals in the city, 54 with C strain, 69 with non-C cluster pattern strains, and 42 with noncluster pattern strains were studied. Susceptibility to reactive...
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