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SUBMITTER: Shin SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4351373 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shin Sanghyuk S SS Modongo Chawangwa C Ncube Ronald R Sepako Enoch E Klausner Jeffrey D JD Zetola Nicola M NM
The Journal of infectious diseases 20140728 3
We examined factors associated with mixed-strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections among patients at high risk for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Botswana. Thirty-seven (10.0%) of 370 patients with tuberculosis had mixed M. tuberculosis infections, based on 24-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeats genotyping. In log-binomial regression analysis, age <37 years (adjusted prevalence ratio [PR], 1.92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01-3.57) and prior ...[more]