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Molecular analysis of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates collected in central Poland.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jun 2008
Augustynowicz-Kopeć E, Jagielski T, Kozińska M, Zabost A, Klatt M, Zwolska Z
Abstract excerpt
In total, 48 Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from 48 patients with drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in central Poland during 2004 were analysed by spoligotyping and IS6110-Mtb1/Mtb2 PCR. Twelve (25%) isolates were clustered by spoligotyping in combination with IS6110-Mtb1/Mtb2 PCR. Patients from whom these isolates were obtained were assumed to have developed TB as a result of recent...
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