Article
Multi Drug Resistant and Heteroresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Variants from Patients in Rural Areas in Eastern Cape
2023-08-29
Abstract excerpt
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emerged as a serious challenge to tuberculosis management and control. In the Eastern Cape, the Beijing variants are prevalent and a driving force of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; hence, we investigated the distribution of gene mutations in Beijing strains compared to non-Beijing strains. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and heteroresistant isolates were identified in 412 sputu...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0668cbab-2aee-54bf-9fae-b969b5661076
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202308.1895.v1
