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First description of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype in Argentina.
Revista Argentina de microbiologia - 1 Jan 2000
Morcillo N, Di Giulio B, Chirico C, Kuriger A, Dolmann A, Alito A, Zumárraga M, Van Soolingen D, Kremer K, Cataldi A
Abstract excerpt
During a population-based study to genotype isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Buenos Aires Northern suburbs, we found isolates with molecular patterns related to those of the Beijing genotype. Five out of 590 (0.85%) patients had isolates with spoligopattern identical to that of the Beijing family. Since two of these isolates showed identical IS6110RFLP pattern, we found only four different patterns...
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