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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Prague and South Moravia, Czech Republic: genetic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by IS6110-RFLP fingerprinting and spoligotyping.
Central European journal of public health - 1 Sept 2004
Kurepina N E, Kreiswirth B N, Shaskina E, Driscoll J R, Polanecký V, Kozáková B, Mezenský L, Kubín M
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OBJECTIVES: To genetically characterize and compare Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates among culture-confirmed TB cases in two regions in the Czech Republic in 1998. METHODS: Consecutive M. tuberculosis isolates from 111 TB patients in Prague and 120 patients in the South Moravia region were genotyped using the standardized IS6110 Southern blot hybridization method and by spoligotyping. RESULTS: Eighty of the...
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