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Genome and MIC stability in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and indications for continuation of use of isoniazid in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
(1997)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to two or more of the first line antituberculosis drugs (MDR) are a serious threat to successful tuberculosis control programmes. For this retrospective study, 85 follow-up drug ...
Adult-to-child transmission of tuberculosis: Household or community contact?
(2003)
SETTING: If a child develops tuberculosis, it is assumed that the source was an adult infectious case, usually living in the same house. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) was used in this study to establish ...
Unexpectedly high strain diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a high-incidence community
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1996)
Objective. To characterise Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains present in a community experiencing an epidemic, in order to establish whether a high rate of transmission results in low strain diversity. Design. Sputum ...