TY - JOUR
T1 - Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru
AU - Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi R.
AU - Shi, Cynthia X.
AU - Chindelevitch, Leonid.
AU - Calderon, Roger
AU - Zhang, Zibiao
AU - Galea, Jerome T
AU - Contreras, Carmen C
AU - Yataco, Rosa
AU - Lecca, Leonid
AU - Becerra, Mercedes C
AU - Murray, Megan B
AU - Cohen, Ted
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - Because within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity complicates diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), we measured diversity prevalence and associated factors among 3,098 pulmonary TB patients in Lima, Peru. The 161 patients with polyclonal infection were more likely than the 115 with clonal or the 2,822 with simple infections to have multidrug-resistant TB.
AB - Because within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity complicates diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), we measured diversity prevalence and associated factors among 3,098 pulmonary TB patients in Lima, Peru. The 161 patients with polyclonal infection were more likely than the 115 with clonal or the 2,822 with simple infections to have multidrug-resistant TB.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sok_facpub/13
U2 - 10.3201/eid2311.170077
DO - 10.3201/eid2311.170077
M3 - Article
C2 - 29048297
VL - 23
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
ER -