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Associations between Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and phenotypes.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2010
Brown Timothy, Nikolayevskyy Vladyslav, Velji Preya, Drobniewski Francis
Abstract excerpt
To inform development of tuberculosis (TB) control strategies, we characterized a total of 2,261 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates by using multiple phenotypic and molecular markers, including polymorphisms in repetitive sequences (spoligotyping and variable-number tandem repeats [VNTRs]) and large sequence and single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The Beijing family was strongly associated with multidrug...
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