High rates of ofloxacin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis among both new and previously treated patients in Tamil Nadu, South India.

High rates of ofloxacin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis among both new and previously treated patients in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Periodic drug resistance surveillance provides useful information on trends of drug resistance and effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) control measures. The present study determines the prevalence of drug resistance among new sputum smear positive (NSP) and previously treated (PT) pulmonary TB patien...

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Main Authors: N Selvakumar, Vanaja Kumar, S Balaji, S Prabuseenivasan, R Radhakrishnan, Gomathi Sekar, V Chandrasekaran, T Kannan, Aleyamma Thomas, S Arunagiri, Puneet Dewan, Soumya Swaminathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4349813?pdf=render

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