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SUBMITTER: Parums DV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362336 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research 20210809
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2019, 10.0 million people worldwide developed tuberculosis (TB), with 1.4 million deaths from TB in that year. Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin and an additional chemotherapeutic agent is known as multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB). Until recently, the prevalence of drug resistance in patients with TB has been poorly understood due to a lack of infection surveillance and molecular tes ...[more]