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IS6110-RFLP and spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Iran.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Doroudchi M, Kremer K, Basiri E A, Kadivar M R, Van Soolingen D, Ghaderi A A
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate and compare the usefulness of IS6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and spoligotyping in the epidemiology of tuberculosis in Iran, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains, isolated in 2 different areas of Iran, were subjected to RFLP and spoligotyping. The average number of IS6110 copies per strain was 11 and ranged from 5 to 18 among the M. tuberculosis strains. In total, among...
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