Genotypic and phenotypic comparison of drug resistance profiles of clinical multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates using whole genome sequencing in Latvia
Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR–TB) remains a major public health problem in many high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries. Phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) take several weeks or months to result, but line probe assays and Xpert/Rif Ultra assay detect a limited n...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-09-01
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Series: | BMC Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08629-7 |