Changes in MIRU-VNTR profiles are associated with treatment failures in tuberculosis patients

Irina Kontsevaya (London, United Kingdom), Irina Kontsevaya, Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy, Alexander Kovalyov, Olga Ignatyeva, Edita Vasiliauskiene, Girts Skenders, Yanina Balabanova, Francis Drobniewski

Source: International Congress 2016 – Update on drug-resistant tuberculosis
Session: Update on drug-resistant tuberculosis
Session type: Thematic Poster
Number: 2684
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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