Prediction of treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by whole-genome sequencing

Abstracts: Background: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has been proposed to be a powerful tool to predict drug resistance for antitubercular drugs. However, the feasibility of WGS in predicting final treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients remains unclear Patients an...

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Main Authors: Guiqing He, Yang Li, Xinchang Chen, Jiazhen Chen, Wenhong Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220302605