Drug-Susceptible and Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Single Patient
Open Access
- 1 November 2019
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 25 (11), 2120-2121
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2511.180638
Abstract
A patient who had initial infection with mixed strains of drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was presumed to have acquired drug resistance before confirmation that sequential strains were genotypically distinct. Transmitted infection with mixed strains is likely underappreciated; identifying these infections requires spoligotyping and whole-genome sequencing.Keywords
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