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Usefulness of 3’- 5’ IS6110-RFLP genotyping and spoligotyping of Mycobacterium ...
Almeida, Silvia Maria de; Malaspina, Ana Carolina; Leite, Clarisse Queico Fujimura; Saad, Maria Helena FéresA drug resistance survey involving Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from patients of a tertiary Hospital in the Rio de Janeiro city (RJ), Brazil, between the years 1996 and 1998 revealed a high frequency of isoniazid (HR) resistance. These isolates were revisited and genotyped. Patients came from different RJ neighborhoods and municipalities, and 70% were outpatients. Applying the 3’ and 5’ IS6110-RFLP and t...
Environmental aspects related to tuberculosis and intestinal parasites in a low...
Cardoso, Biatriz Araújo; Fonseca, Fabio de Oliveira; Moraes Neto, Antonio Henrique Almeida de; Martins, Ana Caroline Guedes SouzaWe carried out a cross-sectional study from January to December 2015 on 1,425 inhabitants from a floating population in the Brazilian Amazon (Murinin district, Pará State) to describe the population-based prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) from 2011 to 2014, recent TB contacts (rCts) latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (LTBI) , the coverage of the local health network, socio-environmental factors, an...