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SUBMITTER: Ejo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503999 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 20150521
In this study we assessed first-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and the genotypic distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates that had been collected from consecutive new tuberculosis patients enrolled in two clinical trials conducted in Guinea between 2005 and 2010. Among the total 359 MTBC strains that were analyzed in this study, 22.8% were resistant to at least one of the first line anti-tuberculosis drugs, including 2.5% multidrug resistance and 17.5% isoniazid ...[more]