Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Southwestern Colombia

Using spoligotyping, we identified 13 genotypes and 17 orphan types among 160 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The Beijing genotype represented 15.6% of the isolates and was correlated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, female sex of the patients, a...

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Autores principales: Ferro, Beatriz E., Nieto, Luisa Maria, Rozo, Juan C., Forero, Liliana, van Soolingen, Dick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21762581
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1707.101797
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Sumario:Using spoligotyping, we identified 13 genotypes and 17 orphan types among 160 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The Beijing genotype represented 15.6% of the isolates and was correlated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, female sex of the patients, and residence in Buenaventura and may represent a new public health threat.

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