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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis: achievements and challenges to current knowledge.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization - 1 Jan 2002
Murray Megan, Nardell Edward
Abstract excerpt
Over the past 10 years, molecular methods have become available with which to strain-type Mycobacterium tuberculosis. They have allowed researchers to study certain important but previously unresolved issues in the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB). For example, some unsuspected microepidemics have been revealed and it has been shown that the relative contribution of recently acquired disease to the TB burden in...
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