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Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv/Ra variants: distinguishing the mycobacterial laboratory strain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2000
Bifani P, Moghazeh S, Shopsin B, Driscoll J, Ravikovitch A, Kreiswirth B N
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains H37Rv and H37Ra are the most commonly used controls for M. tuberculosis identification in the clinical and research laboratory setting. To reduce the likelihood of misidentification and possible cross-contamination with this laboratory neotype, it is important to be able to distinguish H37 from clinical isolates. To provide a reference for identifying H37, we used multiple...
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