Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Northern Pakistan

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 469-472

  Butt, T ^a   Ahmad, R N ^a   Kazmi, S Y ^a   Rafi, N ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEVICE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAKISTAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 6344284100     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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