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Emergence and Spread of Extensively and Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

Factors driving the increase in drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, are not understood. A convenience sample of 309 drug-susceptible and 342 multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB isolates, collected July 2008–July 2009, were characterized by spoligotyping, DNA fingerp...

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Autores principales: Klopper, Marisa, Warren, Robin Mark, Hayes, Cindy, Gey van Pittius, Nicolaas Claudius, Streicher, Elizabeth Maria, Müller, Borna, Sirgel, Frederick Adriaan, Chabula-Nxiweni, Mamisa, Hoosain, Ebrahim, Coetzee, Gerrit, David van Helden, Paul, Victor, Thomas Calldo, Trollip, André Phillip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3647643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23622714
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201//EID1903.120246