Epidemiology of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Northern India
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Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Northern Pakistan.
OBJECTIVE To determine the resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Rawalpindi-Islamabad. METHODS The study was carried out at the Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi between September 2000 and August 2002. We examined 1359 pulmonary and extra-pulmonary specimens from suspected cases of tuberculosis. The radiometric Bactec 460 TB sys...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical and Biotechnology Research Journal (BBRJ)
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2588-9834
DOI: 10.4103/bbrj.bbrj_26_18