Low Occurrence of Tuberculosis Drug Resistance among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients from an Urban Setting, with a Long-Running DOTS Program in Zambia

We set out to determine the levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to first- and second-line TB drugs in an urban population in Zambia. Sputum samples were collected consecutively from all smear-positive, new and previously treated patients, from four diagnostic centres in Ndola between Jan...

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Autores principales: Mulenga, Chanda, Chonde, Allan, Bwalya, Innocent C., Kapata, Nathan, Kakungu-Simpungwe, Mathilda, Docx, Sven, Fissette, Krista, Shamputa, Isdore Chola, Portaels, Françoise, Rigouts, Leen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/938178

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/938178

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