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- Title
Co-infection with Drug-Susceptible and Reactivated Latent Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Authors
Pérez-Lago, Laura; Martínez Lirola, Miguel; Navarro, Yurena; Herranz, Marta; Ruiz-Serrano, María Jesús; Bouza, Emilio; García-de-Viedma, Darío; Lirola, Miguel Martínez
- Abstract
The article describes the case of a tuberculosis (TB) patient with mixed infection in an area of moderate incidence. Topics covered include the assessment of the patient's sputum samples for resistance, the confirmation of the presence of the multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB strain by the phenotypic antibiogram and the analysis of the origin of the susceptible strain. Also mentioned is the relevance of the findings to infection involving resistant strains.
- Subjects
ANTITUBERCULAR agents; GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; MIXED infections; PHARMACODYNAMICS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 11, p2098
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.3201/eid2111.150683