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Catalogue of mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and their association with drug resistance
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Of the 10 million people estimated to have fallen ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2019, nearly half million developed TB resistant to rifampicin (RIF), and over one million developed TB susceptible to RIF but resistant to isoniazid (INH). Drug resistance must be detected rapidly and accurately to initiate appropriate and effective treatment.
The detection of RIF resistance has improved significantly in the past decade with the introduction of rapid diagnostic tools based on DNA detec...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- World Health Organization Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-25
- ISBN:
- 9789240028173
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1183787
- Local pid:
- pubs:1183787
- Deposit date:
- 2021-06-28
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- World Health Organization
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © World Health Organization 2021. Some rights reserved. This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO)
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