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[Genotyping of the Francisella tularensis strains isolated from natural foci of tularemia in the Rostov region by multilocus VNTR analysis].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2004
Vodop'ianov A S, Pavlovich N V, Vodop'ianov S O, Suchkov I Iu, Pichurina N L, Mishan'kin B N
Abstract excerpt
On the basis of an analysis of the VNTR alleles' distribution in 109 strains of F. tularensis it was established that 19 genotypes of the disease causative agent circulated in the Rostov Region from 1945 to 2002. The microbe-provoked infection episodes can be divided into polyclonal, monoclonal and cluster ones. A retrospective analysis of the genotypes' distribution is indicative of that strains of similar or of...
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