Research Article

An overview of the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from four Asian countries

Journal of Medical Microbiology 2008; 57(8):1039 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47850-0

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Abstract

1 Infectious Disease Section, Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, The Philippines

2 Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia

3 Department of Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

4 Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam

5 National Public Health Laboratory, Selangor, Malaysia

6 DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Biomedical TB Research, MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa