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01-05-2014 | Poster presentation
Diagnosis of mycobacterial drug resistance in HIV reactive patients by phenotypic and genotypic assay - a comparative study
Authors:
S Umamaheshwari, Sumana M Neelambike, K Anuradha, B Sumangala
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
Emergence of drug resistance has complicated the treatment of Tuberculosis (TB). WHO reports India as one among 27 “high burden” multidrug resistant (MDR) TB countries. The study was carried out to detect drug resistance of mycobacterial isolates in HIV patients. …