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[Estimation of the efficiency of ERIC-PCR typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for evaluation of the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant strains].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2002
Ogarkov O B, Medvedeva T V, Belikov S I, Kurepina N E, Denikina N N, Ushakov I V
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Twenty-four antibiotic-resistant and sensitive strains of M. tuberculosis isolated from different territories of the Irkutsk region (East Siberia) were studied using PCR genotyping by enterobacterial repetitive intergeneric consensus (ERIC). Evolution relationships are illustrated by phylogenetic trees as a result of analysis by UPGMA and ML approaches. It was found that the studied samples belonged to two...
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