The Association between Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Genotype and Drug Resistance in Peru.

The comparison of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterial genotypes with phenotypic, demographic, geospatial and clinical data improves our understanding of how strain lineage influences the development of drug-resistance and the spread of tuberculosis.To investigate the association of Mycobacterium tu...

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Main Authors: Louis Grandjean, Tomotada Iwamoto, Anna Lithgow, Robert H Gilman, Kentaro Arikawa, Noriko Nakanishi, Laura Martin, Edith Castillo, Valentina Alarcon, Jorge Coronel, Walter Solano, Minoo Aminian, Claudia Guezala, Nalin Rastogi, David Couvin, Patricia Sheen, Mirko Zimic, David A J Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4435908?pdf=render