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Ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in India: implications for TB control programmes.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2009
Ahmed Niyaz, Ehtesham Nasreen Z, Hasnain Seyed E
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It has been a decade since the genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was unraveled. The fruits of genomic technologies are yet to reach high burden countries such as India, where tuberculosis (TB) kills a huge number of patients. Paradoxically, despite increased cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and diabetes mellitus, TB cure rates in India have been consistently improving during the...
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