Tuberculosis caused by RD<SUP>Rio</SUP> <I>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</I> is not associated with differential clinical features

Abstract

Disease caused by M. tuberculosis RD(Rio) strains was not clinically distinctive or more severe than disease caused by non-RD(Rio) strains in this series of TB patients. Larger prospective studies specifically designed to disclose differential clinical characteristics of TB caused by specific M. tuberculosis lineages are needed.