Characteristics of pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Tigray Region, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

• Letemichael Negash Welekidan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: letemichael.negash@mu.edu.et

  Affiliations Department of Para Clinical Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway, Department of Production Animal Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0763-0841

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• Eystein Skjerve,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Production Animal Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway

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• Tsehaye Asmelash Dejene,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Mengistu Welday Gebremichael,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

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• Ola Brynildsrud,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Para Clinical Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Angelika Agdestein,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section for Microbiology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway

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• Girum Tadesse Tessema,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section for Microbiology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway

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• Tone Tønjum,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Unit for Genome Dynamics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Microbiology, Unit for Genome Dynamics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-6921

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• Solomon Abebe Yimer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, Department of Microbiology, Unit for Genome Dynamics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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