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[Pulmonary tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis of different genotypes].
Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh - 1 Jan 2003
Sapozhnikova N V, Skvortsova L A, Pavlova M V, Vishnevskiĭ B I, Otten T F, Vasil'eva S N, Manicheva O A, Mokrousov I V, Narvskaia O V
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A relationship of the clinical picture of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis to the genotype, drug resistance, and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) strains was studied. As compared with the processes induced by individual genotypes, pulmonary tuberculosis caused by MBT from the family Beijing was found to be characterized by more marked clinical symptoms, multisegmental lung tissue lesions with...
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