Drug resistant TB is currently a global challenge causing high risk of death and expanding the disease. This study explores the prevalence of drug resistance in newly diagnosed and recurrent TB patients and identifies the association between NAT2 gene polymorphism distribution and acetylator phenotype of NAT2 gene and the two study groups. The study results show that the newly diagnosed TB had l lower male ratio and younger age in comparison to the recurrent TB. | Drug resistance and distribution of NAT2 variants in newly diagnosed and recurrent Vietnamese pulmonary tuberculosis patients
