Genomic Characterization of XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Argentina (2006-2015)

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Background: Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the intracellular bacterium <italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</italic> (Mtb), remains a significant global health challenge, with Mtb being the second leading infectious killer worldwide, following COVID-19. Despite over a century of research, the disease continues to pose a major threat, with an estimated one-fourth of the global populatio...

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• Antibiotics, Antitubercular
• Antitubercular Agents
• DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases
• Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
• Isoniazid
• Rifampin
• Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
• Whole Genome Sequencing

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Literature Corpus work

7ca69356-49c2-53cf-9aeb-50d7f30ef02f

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-6456461/v1