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Genotype analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a sentinel surveillance population.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2002
Cowan Lauren S, Crawford Jack T
Abstract excerpt
As part of the National Tuberculosis and Genotyping Surveillance Network, isolates obtained from all new cases of tuberculosis occurring in seven geographically separate surveillance sites from 1996 through 2000 were genotyped. A total of 10883 isolates were fingerprinted by the IS6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism method, yielding 6128 distinct patterns. Low-copy isolates (those with six or fewer...
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