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Genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bangladesh and prevalence of the Beijing strain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2004
Banu Sayera, Gordon Stephen V, Palmer Si, Islam M Rizaul, Ahmed Shakeel, Alam Khan Mashrequl, Cole Stewart T, Brosch Roland
Abstract excerpt
Genotypic analysis was performed on 48 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains collected from a hospital in Dhaka city. Deletion analysis showed that the isolates were all M. tuberculosis; 13 of them were found to be of the "ancestral" type, while 35 were of the "modern" type, indicating that both endemic (ancestral type) and epidemic (modern type) strains cause tuberculosis in Bangladesh. Genotyping based on...
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