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Molecular analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with an intact pks15/1 gene in a rural community of Mexico.
Archives of medical research - 1 Nov 2008
Martinez-Gamboa Areli, Ponce-de-Leon Alfredo, Galindo-Fraga Arturo, Bobadilla-del-Valle Miriam, Kato-Maeda Midori, Robertson Brian D, Young Douglas B, Small Peter M, Sifuentes-Osornio José
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BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and infects approximately 1/3 of the human population, but only 10% of all infected individuals will ever develop the disease and half of these may result in a rapid progression to disease during the first 2 years after being infected. On the other hand, some phenotypic differences among mycobacterial...
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