Frequency of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RDRio genotype and its association with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Frequency of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RDRio genotype and its association with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Abstract Background In recent decades, Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the RDRio 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...

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Main Authors: Isabela Neves de Almeida, Sidra Ezidio Gonçalves Vasconcellos, Lida Jouca de Assis Figueredo, Nayanne Gama Teixeira Dantas, Cláudio José Augusto, João Paulo Amaral Hadaad, Philip Noel Suffys, Wânia da Silva Carvalho, Silvana Spíndola de Miranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Genotype
Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-4152-7

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