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Genetic diversity and population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Casablanca, a Moroccan city with high incidence of tuberculosis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2004
Tazi Loubna, El Baghdadi Jamila, Lesjean Sarah, Locht Camille, Supply Philip, Tibayrenc Michel, Bañuls Anne-Laure
Abstract excerpt
Although lower-resource countries have by far the highest burden of tuberculosis, knowledge of Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structure and genetic diversity in these regions remains almost nonexistent. In this paper, 150 Moroccan M. tuberculosis isolates circulating in Casablanca were genotyped by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis using 10 different primers and by mycobacterial interspersed...
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