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<span class="word">From <span class="word">Mutation <span class="word">to <span class="word">Community <span class="word">Action: <span class="word">Drug-<span class="word">Resistance <span class="word">Patterns <span class="word">of <em><span class="word italic">Mycobacterium <span class="word italic">tuberculosis</em> <span class="word">in <span class="word">the <span class="word">Rural <span class="word">Eastern <span class="word">Cape, <span class="word">South <span class="word">Africa
2026-03-10
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<h4>Background: </h4> Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains a major global health challenge and a leading infectious cause of death, with 10.6 million cases and 450,000 rifampicin-resistant cases reported in 2021. The rise of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), driven by mutations in genes such as rpoB, katG, inhA, gyrA, and rrs, threatens the practical...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7cefa9d3-6af4-5380-aa13-8b7ba5547683
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202603.0811.v1
