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Research Article
Vol. 34, Issue 1
Prevalence of Rifampicin Resistance among Presumptive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients within Lagos and its Environs in South-Western Nigeria
Drug resistance (DR) is a major global health concern and currently implicated in fuelling the burden of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Nigeria. Overall, DR poses serious public health threat to TB control programmes particularly in TB endemic countries with limited resources. However, early and rapid detection of rifampicin resis...