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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...
Autores principales: | Otero, Larissa, Krapp, Fiorella, Tomatis, Cristina, Zamudio, Carlos, Matthys, Francine, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Seas, Carlos |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2011
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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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