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DNA profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa and the detection of a high level of genetic diversity.
Electrophoresis - 1 Jun 1999
Richner S, Meiring J, Kirby R
Abstract excerpt
The genetic diversity in 502 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa was DNA-profiled using random amplified polymorphic DNA sequences generated by four primers, and analyzed using the Dice similarity coefficient and the Ward cluster algorithm. Three major cluster groups and ten clusters were detected and shown to be significant at the five percent level using...
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