Article
[Genetic typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains by spoligotyping and genome fingerprinting techniques].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Shemiakin I G, Stepanshina V N, Korobova O V, Anisimova V A, Ivanov I Iu, Lipin M Iu, Lazarev A A, Skaldina A I, Chernavskaia L A, Tarasova T I
Abstract excerpt
A total of 122 M. tuberculosis clinical drug-resistant strains isolated in Central Russia were studied by spoligotyping and genome fingerprinting techniques. According to spoligotyping results 77% of M. tuberculosis strains were distributed to 13 oligotypes, while 23% of these strains were found to form unique patterns. Most of them belonged to the families Beijing and Haarlem (43.4% and 13.9% respectively). The...
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