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. 2005 Mar 15;40(6):881-6.
doi: 10.1086/427940. Epub 2005 Feb 18.

High incidence of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tertiary care center in Mumbai, India

Deepak Almeida  1 , Camilla Rodrigues, Tester F Ashavaid, Ajit Lalvani, Zarir F Udwadia, Ajita Mehta
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High incidence of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a tertiary care center in Mumbai, India

Deepak Almeida et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We report a high frequency (35%) of the Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant isolates recovered in and around Mumbai, India. Further restriction fragment-length polymorphism typing showed that these strains were closely related. We also report a high frequency of the Delhi genotype (31% of isolates). Our data indicate considerable ongoing transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype in Mumbai.

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