Mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing and mutational profile for multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis surveillance in Portugal: a 3-year period overview

Multidrug tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDRTB) cases constitute a serious health problem in Portugal, of which the majority of isolates belong to the Lisboa family and the Q1 cluster, highly related to the Lisboa family. Here we sought to investigate the molecula...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva, Carla (author)
Other Authors: Perdigão, João (author), Jordão, Luísa (author), Portugal, Isabel (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/2911
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/2911