Molecular and epidemiological characterization of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Johannesburg, South Africa

South Africa has a heavy burden of tuberculosis (TB) which is exacerbated by the concurrent epidemic of HIV. Molecular techniques have been used in most developed countries to investigate the dynamics of the TB epidemic, but despite the high prevalence of TB in sub-Saharan Africa, little data on str...

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Main Author: Mlambo, Charmaine Khudzie
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10935