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[Molecular typing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains circulating in central Russia: efficiency of spoligotyping and VNTR-MIRU].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2005
Nikolaevskiĭ V V, Balabanova Ia M, Brown T, Drobniewski F A, Fedorin I M
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Current problems of molecular epidemiology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains circulating in Samara Region, Russia are discussed. A total of 190 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were typed using two PCR-based molecular methods. The cultures were isolated from civil and prison patients with pulmonary tuberculosis recruited from different tuberculosis institutions across the Samara region. The...
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