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. 2010 Sep;16(9):1473-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1609.100280.

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Pakistan

Rumina Hasan  1 , Kauser Jabeen, Asho Ali, Yasraba Rafiq, Rabia Laiq, Babar Malik, Mahnaz Tanveer, Ramona Groenheit, Solomon Ghebremichael, Sven Hoffner, Zahra Hasan
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Pakistan

Rumina Hasan et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Sep.

Abstract

Frequency of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan increased from 1.5% in 2006 to 4.5% in 2009 (p<0.01). To understand the epidemiology, we genotyped selected strains by using spoligotyping, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats, and IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.

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