Laboratory-based study of drug resistance and genotypic profile of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis isolates in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Erivelton de Oliveira Sousa Rita Terezinha de Oliveira Carneiro Fátima Cristina Onofre Fandinho Montes Emilyn Costa Conceição Patrícia Bartholomay Oliveira Jamocyr Moura Marinho Karla Valéria Batista Lima Marcio Dos Santos Natividade Wildo Navegantes de Araújo Eliana Dias Matos Theolis Costa Barbosa Bessa

Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (2022)

We highlight the need for strengthening local and national efforts to perform early detection of TB drug resistance and to prevent treatment discontinuation to limit the emergence of drug-resistant strains.

Keyphrases

drug resistant
multidrug resistant
acinetobacter baumannii
gram negative
mycobacterium tuberculosis
quality improvement
klebsiella pneumoniae
escherichia coli
pseudomonas aeruginosa
hepatitis c virus
genetic diversity
emergency department