A Novel Molecular Strategy for Surveillance of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in High Burden Settings

• Halima M. Said ,

  * E-mail: halimas@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Nicole Kushner,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Shaheed V. Omar,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Andries W. Dreyer,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Hendrik Koornhof,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Linda Erasmus,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Yasmin Gardee,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Ivy Rukasha,

  Affiliation Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa

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• Elena Shashkina,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Natalie Beylis,

  Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gilla Kaplan,

  Affiliation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Dorothy Fallows,

  Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Nazir A. Ismail

  Affiliations Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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