Drug-Susceptible and Multidrug-Resistant <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> in a Single Patient
Anthony Baffoe-Bonnie, Eric R. Houpt, Lauren Turner, Denise Dodge, Scott K. Heysell
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-08
Abstract
A patient who had initial infection with mixed strains of drug-susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis was presumed to have acquired drug resistance before confirmation that sequential strains were genotypically distinct. Transmitted infection with mixed strains is likely underappreciated; identifying these infections requires spoligotyping and whole-genome sequencing.
MeSH terms
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Multiple drug resistance
- Drug resistance
- Drug
- Virology
- Biology
- Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Microbiology
- Whole genome sequencing
- Genome
- Medicine