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Susceptibility tests were performed using the resistance proportion method for INH, RIF, SM, EMB and TH; strains were considered highly resistant if the same growth was observed on Lowenstein-Jensen medium containing the following drug concentrations, respectively: 0.2 1 μg/ml, 40 μg/ml, 4 μg/ml, 2 μg/ml and 2 4 μg/ml.
And the resistance proportion was low.
The reason for this exceptionally high resistance proportion is unknown.
For both, the rate of S. aureus discharge diagnoses and methicillin resistance proportion, significant differences were seen by geographic region.
Drug susceptibility tests had been performed for isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RIF), streptomycin (SM), ethambutol (EMB) and thiacetasone (TH) after isolation by using the resistance proportion method.
A ratio over unity indicates that the provincial laboratory overestimated the resistance proportion, and a ratio below unity indicates it underestimated resistance.
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For previously treated cases, the estimated RIF resistance proportions decreased from 43% and 45%to32%and36% 36% respectively.
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