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High prevalence of childhood multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), estimated at 0.6-6.7%, in African children with tuberculosis. We undertook a retrospective analysis of the prevalence of MDR-TB in children with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) at two hospitals in Jo...

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Autores principales: Fairlie, Lee, Beylis, Natalie C, Reubenson, Gary, Moore, David P, Madhi, Shabir A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21269475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-28