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Tuberculosis transmission of predominant genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in northern suburbs of Buenos Aires city region.
Revista Argentina de microbiologia - 1 Jan 2000
Morcillo N, Zumarraga M, Imperiale B, Di Giulio B, Chirico C, Kuriger A, Alito A, Kremer K, Cataldi A
Abstract excerpt
In 2003, the incidence of tuberculosis in Argentina showed an increase compared to 2002. The severe national crisis at the end of the 90s has probably strongly contributed to this situation. The goal of this work was to estimate the extent of the spread of the most predominant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and to assess the spread of predominant M. tuberculosis clusters as determined by spoligotyping and...
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