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Distribution of the Beijing family genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2005
Jou Ruwen, Chiang Chen-Yuan, Huang Wei-Lun
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the distribution of the Beijing family genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Taiwan, we collected 421 M. tuberculosis complex clinical isolates at random from four geographic regions of Taiwan and analyzed them by spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) in 2003. We found 113 resolved spoligotypes, among which we identified 28 (24.8%) clusters. One hundred eighty-seven (44.4%) isolates...
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