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Estimating Fitness by Competition Assays between Drug Susceptible and Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis of Predominant Lineages in Mumbai, India

BACKGROUND: Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) is a threat to global tuberculosis control. A significant fitness cost has been associated with DR strains from specific lineages. Evaluation of the influence of the competing drug susceptible strains on fitness of drug resistant strains may hav...

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Autores principales: Bhatter, Purva, Chatterjee, Anirvan, D'souza, Desiree, Tolani, Monica, Mistry, Nerges
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22479407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033507