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Genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2007
Singh Urvashi Balbir, Arora Jyoti, Suresh Naga, Pant Hema, Rana Tanu, Sola Christophe, Rastogi Nalin, Pande Jitendra Nath
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Spoligotyping was performed on 540 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in order to evaluate the genetic biodiversity of tubercle bacilli in India. One hundred and forty seven patterns were unique and 393 were grouped in 48 clusters. Comparison with an international spoligotype database showed that the most predominant clades among tuberculosis (TB) isolates were Central Asian (CAS) and East-African Indian (EAI)...
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