Article
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...
Topics
- Adult
- Bangladesh
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Prevalence
- Sequence Deletion
- Tuberculosis