759. Molecular Characterization and Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and Identification of Possible Cases of Local Transmission of MDR-TB in Kuwait

BACKGROUND: Increasing incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is hampering efforts to control TB. Kuwait is a low (25/100,000) TB incidence country and ~1% of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are resistant to rifampin, RIF and isoniazid, INH (MDR-TB). Analysis of resistance conferr...

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Autores principales: Mokaddas, Eiman, Ahmad, Suhail, Al-Mutairi, Noura
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253512/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.766

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253512/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.766

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