Genomic diversity of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Lisbon Portugal: Towards tuberculosis genomic epidemiology
Multidrug- (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) present a challenge to disease control and elimination goals. Lisbon, Portugal, has a high TB incidencerate and unusual and successful XDR-TB strains that have been found in circulation foralmost two decades. For the last 20 yea...
Main Authors: | João Perdigão, Hugo Silva, Diana Machado, Rita Macedo, Fernando Maltez, Carla Silva, Luisa Jordao, Isabel Couto, Kim Mallard, Francesc Coll, Grant A Hill-Cawthorne, Ruth McNerney, Arnab Pain, Taane G Clark, Miguel Viveiros, Isabel Portugal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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Series: | International Journal of Mycobacteriology |
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Online Access: | http://www.ijmyco.org/article.asp?issn=2212-5531;year=2015;volume=4;issue=5;spage=27;epage=28;aulast=Perdigão;type=0 |
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