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Spoligotyping profile change caused by deletion of a direct variable repeat in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis isogenic laboratory strain.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2004
Aranaz Alicia, Romero Beatriz, Montero Natalia, Alvarez Julio, Bezos Javier, de Juan Lucía, Mateos Ana, Domínguez Lucas
Abstract excerpt
Spoligotyping is a major tool for molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms. For epidemiological purposes, strains are considered clonal only when their spoligotyping patterns are identical. We report a change in the spoligotyping profiles of truly isogenic strains (a clini...
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