Mycobacterium tuberculosisDrug Resistance, Ghana

Emerging Infectious Diseases - Tập 12 Số 7 - Trang 1170-1172
Ellis Owusu‐Dabo1, Ohene Adjei1, Christian G. Meyer2, Rolf D. Horstmann2, Anthony Enimil3, Thomas Kruppa4, Frank Bonsu5, Edmund Browne1, Margaret A. Chinbuah6, Ivy Osei6, John O. Gyapong6, Christof Berberich1, Tanja Kubica7, Stefan Niemann7, Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes7
1Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
2Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
3Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
4Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
5National Tuberculosis Programme, Accra, Ghana;
6Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana
7National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany

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