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Characterization of M. tuberculosis strains from west African patients by spoligotyping.
Microbes and infection - 1 Dec 1999
Niang M N, de la Salmoniere Y G, Samb A, Hane A A, Cisse M F, Gicquel B, Perraut R
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains was carried out using isolates collected from 69 Senegalese and 20 Ivory Coast tuberculosis patients. These 89 isolates were typed by means of the spoligotyping technique, showing clusterized populations of bacterial strains. In the Senegalese patients, 35 genetic profiles were observed with 10 clusters of spoligotypes from 44 isolates. Among Ivory Coast patients, 11...
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