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Multiple Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in early cultures from patients in a high-incidence community setting.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2002
Richardson Madalene, Carroll Nora M, Engelke Erica, Van Der Spuy Gian D, Salker Faeeza, Munch Zahn, Gie Robert P, Warren Robin M, Beyers Nulda, Van Helden Paul D
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In an ongoing molecular epidemiology study, human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients with first-time pulmonary tuberculosis from a high-incidence community were enrolled. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains were identified by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with two fingerprinting probes. Of 131 patients, 3 (2.3%) were shown to have a mixture of strains in one or two of their serial...
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