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Genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family in East Asia revealed through refined population structure analysis.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Feb 2009
Wada Takayuki, Iwamoto Tomotada, Maeda Shinji
Abstract excerpt
The Beijing/W family is the endemic lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in East Asia: it has disseminated worldwide. To elucidate its genetic diversity in Japan, phylogenetic reconstruction was performed using 403 M. tuberculosis Beijing family clinical isolates. Variable number of tandem repeats analysis revealed the strains from Japan to be dispersed mainly among five subgroups in a phylogenetic tree....
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