An Insight into the Demographics of Rifampicin Resistance in a Tertiary Care Setting of Karachi
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A Cross sectional data based study was performed on the demographics of patients labelled as rifampicin resistant using Genexpert® from the period of January 2014 to June 2015 at the Provincial TB reference Laboratory, Dow University of Health Sciences. The records of the patients diagnosed as rifampicin resistant by Genexpert® were tabulated using Microsoft Excel® with anonymization and analyzed using online statistical software.
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