High prevalence of primary multidrug resistant tuberculosis in persons with no known risk factors.

<h4>Introduction</h4>In high multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) prevalence areas, drug susceptibility testing (DST) at diagnosis is recommended for patients with risk factors for MDR. However, this approach might miss a substantial proportion of MDR-TB in the general population....

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Main Authors: Larissa Otero, Fiorella Krapp, Cristina Tomatis, Carlos Zamudio, Francine Matthys, Eduardo Gotuzzo, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Carlos Seas
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/760ef6b9e93b47e3bbb971def0c93c94
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