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Tuberculosis
Research conducted at H.J. Marttila and co-authors has provided new information about tuberculosis
April 8th, 2008
According to recent research from Turku, Finland, "Modern molecular methods help us to understand the transmission and epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. To analyse the molecular epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), and to characterise isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP) resistance conferring mutations in Finland during 1995-2004." "A total of 3959 new M. tuberculosis isolates underwent drug susceptibility testing; all phenotypically resistant isolates were genotyped by IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism and spoligotyping if necessary. INH- and/or RMP-resistant isolates were sequenced for their resistance associated genes, katG locus...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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