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Braz. j. microbiol
; 44(2): 465-468, 2013.
Article
in English
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| ID: biblio-1469594
ABSTRACT
This study investigated biological characteristics of recovered stressed M. tuberculosis isolates that failed to grow in differential culture media for phenotypic identification and in culture media containing anti-tuberculosis drugs for drug-susceptibility testing, despite of having grown in primary culture. It represents an improvement in the diagnosis of MDR tuberculosis and tuberculosis control.