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Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru

Because within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity complicates diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), we measured diversity prevalence and associated factors among 3,098 pulmonary TB patients in Lima, Peru. The 161 patients with polyclonal infection were more likely than the 115 with cl...

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Autores principales: Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi R., Shi, Cynthia X., Chindelevitch, Leonid, Calderon, Roger, Zhang, Zibiao, Galea, Jerome T., Contreras, Carmen, Yataco, Rosa, Lecca, Leonid, Becerra, Mercedes C., Murray, Megan B., Cohen, Ted
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29048297
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2311.170077