Genotyping and molecular detection of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among tuberculosis lymphadenitis cases in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has emerged as a major public health problem. Drug-resistance surveillance data show that 3.9% of new and 21% of previously treated TB cases were estimated to have had rifampicin/ multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) in 2015. This implies that the MD...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-01-01
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Series: | New Microbes and New Infections |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297517300859 |