Clonal population of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains reside within multiple lung cavities.

BACKGROUND: Unsuccessful treatment outcomes among patients with multi-/extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) have hampered efforts involved in eradicating this disease. In order to better understand the etiology of this disease, we aimed to determine whether single or multiple strains of Myco...

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Main Authors: Viral Vadwai, Gustad Daver, Zarir Udwadia, Meeta Sadani, Anjali Shetty, Camilla Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3173478?pdf=render