Prediction of drug resistance profile of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-MTB) isolates from newly diagnosed case by whole genome sequencing (WGS): a study from a high tuberculosis burden country

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Authors

Zheyuan Wu · Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control Prevention

Yangyi Zhang · Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control Prevention

Liping Yan · Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital

Abstract

WGS has the potential to infer resistance profiles without time-consuming phenotypic methods, which could be provide a basis to formulate reasonable treatment in high TB burden areas.

Topics & Keywords

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Biochemical and Molecular Research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases

Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 499-499

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-022-07482-4

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