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[Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains prevalent in North-West of Russia by spoligotyping].
Problemy tuberkuleza - 1 Jan 2002
Narvskaia O V, Mokrousov I V, Limeshchenko E V, Steklova l N, Otten T F, Vishnevskiĭ B I
Abstract excerpt
Spoligotyping was used for genotyping of 238 M. tuberculosis cultures isolated from 302 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis living in the north-west of Russia, including those in Saint Petersburg, in 1998-2001, and the M. tuberculosis strains H37Rv, M. bovis, and M. bovic BCG and M. tuberculosis in the specimens painted for microscopy. The quality of spoligotyping was high and similar to that when DNA from the...
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