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Confirmed case of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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Person with a positive culture for M. tuberculosis which has been confirmed through a drug-susceptibility test to be resistant in vitro to at least isoniazid and rifampicin.
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A patient with a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis whose infecting strain has been confirmed through a drug-susceptibility test to be resistant in vitro to at least isoniazid and rifampicin
From: WHO
Year: 2014
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