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Leprosy Drug Resistance Surveillance in Colombia: The Experience of a Sentinel Country
An active search for Mycobacterium leprae drug resistance was carried out, 243 multibacillary patients from endemic regions of Colombia were included from 2004 to 2013 in a surveillance program. This program was a World Health Organization initiative for drug resistance surveillance in leprosy, wher...
Autores principales: | Beltrán-Alzate, Camilo, López Díaz, Fernando, Romero-Montoya, Marcela, Sakamuri, Rama, Li, Wei, Kimura, Miyako, Brennan, Patrick, Cardona-Castro, Nora |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27706165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005041 |
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