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Volume 11, Number 6, June 2005

Rifampicin Resistance in Tuberculosis Outbreak, London, England

Claire Jenkins,* Alleyna P. Claxton,† Robert J. Shorten,* Timothy D. McHugh,* and Stephen H. Gillespie*
*Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom; and †Homerton Hospital, London, United Kingdom

 
 
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Figure 2. Suggested epidemiologic relationship between 6 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Resistance to rifampicin developed in patients 018, 483, and 915 while on therapy, whereas patients T7, 604, and 317 contracted primary MDR-TB. The type of mutation present in each patient's strain of MDR-TB is highlighted in bold.

 

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