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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 21
| Issue : 2 | Page : 127-128 |
Resistance of mycobacterium tuberculosis to the first line anti tubercular drugs - A twenty year review
MV Jesudason, U Mukundan, R Saaya, K Vanitha, MK Lalitha
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore - 632 004, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
M V Jesudason
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore - 632 004, Tamil Nadu
India
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PMID: 17642998 
Tuberculosis and more so the multi drug resistant variety has been thrust into the forefront as a serious and life threatening illness in recent years. The advent of AIDS contributes to this substantially, especially in the developed world where it had become practically non- existent. We reviewed our data over the past 20 years with a view to determine when drug resistance began to manifest in the strains.
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