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Mixed infections of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in tuberculosis patients in Shanghai, China.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Sept 2008
Fang Rendong, Li Xia, Li Jing, Wu Jie, Shen Xin, Gui Xiaohong, DeRiemer Kathryn, Liu Li, Mei Jian, Gao Qian
Abstract excerpt
We applied a 7 loci Variable-Number-Tandem-Repeats (VNTR-7) analysis method to identify mixed infections of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and to estimate the rate of mixed infections among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Shanghai, China. We validated the VNTR-7 method and used it to genotype an isolate from each of the 249 from pulmonary tuberculosis patients reported from the Songjiang and Chongming districts in...
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