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Unexpectedly high proportion of ancestral Manu genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains cultured from tuberculosis patients in Egypt.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2009
Helal Zeinab H, Ashour Mohamed Seif El-Din, Eissa Somaia A, Abd-Elatef Ghanem, Zozio Thierry, Babapoor Sankhiros, Rastogi Nalin, Khan Mazhar I
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis is one of the important public health problems in Egypt. However, limited information on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes circulating in Egypt is available. A total of 151 M. tuberculosis strains were characterized by spoligotyping. The results revealed that 74.8% of M. tuberculosis isolates grouped into 13 different clusters, while 25.2% had unique spoligotype patterns. Comparison with an...
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