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Three-year longitudinal study of genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Tuscany, Italy.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2007
Lari Nicoletta, Rindi Laura, Bonanni Daniela, Rastogi Nalin, Sola Christophe, Tortoli Enrico, Garzelli Carlo
Abstract excerpt
The genetic diversity of 829 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated during a 3-year period in Tuscany, Italy, a country with a low prevalence of tuberculosis, from 480 Italian-born and 349 foreign-born patients was determined by spoligotyping. The predominant spoligotype families were T (30.2% of isolates), Haarlem (19.9%), and the Latino-American and Mediterranean family (LAM) (11.2%); the remaining...
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