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Preparation of a working seed lot of BCG and quality control by PCR genotyping.
Revista Argentina de microbiologia - 1 Jan 2000
Trovero A, Argüelles C, Cataldi A
Abstract excerpt
The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was obtained in 1920 after successive passages leading to the attenuation of a Mycobacterium bovis strain. For the following 40 years, BCG had been replicated, resulting in substrains with genotypic and phenotypic differences. Several genomic studies have compared two BCG strains, M. bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and observed that deleted regions in the different strains...
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