Pneumocystis carinii versus Pneumocystis jiroveci: Another Misnomer (Response to Stringer et al.)
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276 Emerging Infectious Diseases • Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2003 the prevalence of HIV positivity among our patients is unknown, a preliminary study from Yangon shows that the prevalence of drug-resistant TB among HIV-seropositive and seronegative patients is the same (pers. comm., Myanmar national TB programs]. To our knowledge, this report is the first to describe drugresistant patterns in M. tuberculosis isolates from Myanmar.
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