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Usefulness of Spoligotyping To Discriminate IS <i>6110</i> Low-Copy-Number <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Complex Strains Cultured in Denmark
1 Aug 1999
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains cultured in Denmark have been analyzed by IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) on a routine basis from 1992 and onwards. Due to the influx of immigrants with tuberculosis, the number of strains harboring only one to five copies of IS6110 has increased steadily. Since the discriminatory power of IS6110 fingerprinting for such strains is poor, we have...
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