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SUBMITTER: de Almeida IN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6593491 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Almeida Isabela Neves IN Vasconcellos Sidra Ezidio Gonçalves SEG de Assis Figueredo Lida Jouca LJ Dantas Nayanne Gama Teixeira NGT Augusto Cláudio José CJ Hadaad João Paulo Amaral JPA Suffys Philip Noel PN da Silva Carvalho Wânia W de Miranda Silvana Spíndola SS
BMC infectious diseases 20190625 1
<h4>Background</h4>In recent decades, Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the RD<sup>Rio</sup> genotype, frequently isolated from tuberculosis patients in Rio de Janeiro, has become part of the Latin American - Mediterranean (LAM) family and has been associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of M. tuberculosis RD<sup>Rio</sup> in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and its relationship with MDR-TB.<h4>Methods</h4>For convenience, ...[more]