Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from western Maharashtra, India, exhibit a high degree of diversity and strain-specific associations with drug resistance, cavitary disease, and treatment failure

Chatterjee A, D’Souza D, Vira T, Bamne A, Ambe GT, Nicol MP, Wilkinson RJ, Mistry N. Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from western Maharashtra, India, exhibit a high degree of diversity and strain-specific associations with drug resistance, cavitary disease, and treatment failure. J Clin Microbiol. 2010; 48(10): 3593–9.