Drug Resistance (TB)
India Reports MDR-TB Figures
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 14th, 1998
A total of 116 isolates from patients attending the out-patient department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and the New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, New Delhi, India were collected by researcher N. Siddiqi and colleagues ("Molecular Genetic Analysis of Multi-Drug Resistance in Indian Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis," Mem Ist Oswaldo Cruz, Sept-Oct, 1998;93(5):589-594).
The isolates were analyzed for resistance to tuberculosis drugs. The drug resistance was initially...
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