Use of Multiplex Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction (MAS-PCR) to Detect Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Panama

• Bing-Shao Chia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bing-Shao Chia, Fedora Lanzas

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Fedora Lanzas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bing-Shao Chia, Fedora Lanzas

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Proteomics, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, ICGES, Panamá, República de Panamá

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• Dalin Rifat,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Aubrey Herrera,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Y. Kim,

  Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Christine Sailer,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Edith Torres-Chavolla,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Purvaja Narayanaswamy,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Viktor Einarsson,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Jaime Bravo,

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Proteomics, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, ICGES, Panamá, República de Panamá

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• Juan M. Pascale,

  Affiliation Department of Genomics and Proteomics, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud, ICGES, Panamá, República de Panamá

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• Thomas R. Ioerger,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• James C. Sacchettini,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Petros C. Karakousis

  * E-mail: petros@jhmi.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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