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[Spoligotyping of mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from patients in the Samara region].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Zheltkova E, Balabanova Ia, Ruddy M, Weldon L, Malomanova N, Elizarova E, Melent'ev A, Mutovkin E, Zakharova S, Fedorin I, Drobnievskiĭ F, Chernousova L
Abstract excerpt
The spoligotyping of 138 M. tuberculosis isolates obtained on the territory of the Samara region made it possible to classify them as belonging to 27 groups. The largest cluster including 94 strains (68.1%) belonged to Peking spoligotype. As shown with the use of the commercial system INNO-LiPA, 78 out of 134 strains (58.2%) had mutations in different sites of gene pro B. The analysis of the markers of resistance...
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