High Prevalence of Primary Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Persons with No Known Risk Factors

INTRODUCTION: In high multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) prevalence areas, drug susceptibility testing (DST) at diagnosis is recommended for patients with risk factors for MDR. However, this approach might miss a substantial proportion of MDR-TB in the general population. We studied primary...

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Autores principales: Otero, Larissa, Krapp, Fiorella, Tomatis, Cristina, Zamudio, Carlos, Matthys, Francine, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Seas, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026276

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026276

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