AN INVESTIGATION ON MULTIPLE DRUG RESISTANCE OF THE RIFAMPIN RESISTANT STRAINS OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
抗利福平结核分枝杆菌的多药耐药性调查

The correlation between rifampin resistance and multiple drug resistance in 236 clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was investigated in this thesis. It has found that 99.4% of the strains with rifampin resistance were multidrug-resistant strains and 89% of the multidrug-resistant strains were resistant to rifampin. This result showed that the rifampin resistance of Tuberculosis baccilli could be used as the marker of multidrug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.