Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru

Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru

Because within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity complicates diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), we measured diversity prevalence and associated factors among 3,098 pulmonary TB patients in Lima, Peru. The 161 patients with polyclonal infection were more likely than the 115 with cl...

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Main Authors: Ruvandhi R. Nathavitharana, Cynthia X. Shi, Leonid Chindelevitch, Roger Calderon, Zibiao Zhang, Jerome T. Galea, Carmen Contreras, Rosa Yataco, Leonid Lecca, Mercedes C. Becerra, Megan B. Murray, Ted Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
tuberculosis
TB
strain diversity
multidrug-resistant TB
polyclonal infection
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/11/17-0077_article

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