Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to first line of antibiotics used for treatment of tuberculosis | ||
| journal of kerbala university | ||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 190-194 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In the present study ,we diagnosied 208 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were collected from 685 sputum samples (30.3%) from patients coming to the center of chest and respiratory diseases – Baghdad. Aged (4 months - 70 years old) of both sex . Sensitivity of bacterial isolates was tested to three antibacterial agent , rifampicin , isoniazid and Streptomycin to detect the Multi-Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB), results showed that (20) isolates were resistant to isoniazid (14.9%),16 isolates resistant to rifampicin (11.9%),12 isolates resistant to streptomycin and 26 isolates (19.4%) were resistant to both isoniazid and rifampicin (MDR-TB). | ||
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