Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype and Risk for Treatment Failure and Relapse, Vietnam

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype and Risk for Treatment Failure and Relapse, Vietnam

Among 2,901 new smear-positive tuberculosis cases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 40 cases of treatment failure and 39 relapsing cases were diagnosed. All initial and follow-up Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of these case-patients had (nearly) identical restriction fragment length polymorphism pa...

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Main Authors: Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, Hoang Thi Kim Lien, Le B. Tung, Martien W. Borgdorff, Kristin Kremer, Dick van Soolingen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
epidemiology
multidrug resistance
treatment failure
Beijing genotype
Vietnam
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/12/03-0169_article

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