Journal:
:iranian journal of microbiology
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saeed zakerbostanabad department of clinical microbiology, belarusian research institute for epidemiology and microbiology, minsk, belarus and deptartment of mycobacteriology and pulmonary research; pasteur institute of iran, tehran, iran.
v molla kazemi department of microbiology, faculty of medicine, islamic azad university of tehran, tehran, iran.
mk rahimi cell bank of iran, pasteur institute of iran,tehran, iran.
shahidi sh shahidi deptartment of mycobacteriology and pulmonary research; pasteur institute of iran, tehran, iran.
sh pourazar department of clinical microbiology, belarusian research institute for epidemiology and microbiology, minsk, belarus.
m massomi deptartment of mycobacteriology and pulmonary research; pasteur institute of iran, tehran, iran.
background and objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the significance of multiple-mutations in the katg gene, predominant nucleotide changes and its correlation with high level of resistance to isoniazid in mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates that were randomly collected from sputa of 42 patients with primary and secondary active pulmonary tuberculosis from different geographic r...