High proportion of RR-TB and mutations conferring RR outside of the RRDR of the rpoB gene detected in GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Gizachew Taddesse Akalu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gtakalu@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Microbial, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2603-145X

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• Belay Tessema,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Laboratory Medicine, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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• Beyene Petros

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial, Cellular, and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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