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Spoligotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from different Provinces of China.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2010
Dong Haiyan, Liu Zhiguang, Lv Bing, Zhang Yuanyuan, Liu Jie, Zhao Xiuqin, Liu Jinghua, Wan Kanglin
Abstract excerpt
A total of 2,346 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 13 provinces in China were genotyped by spoligotyping. Two hundred seventy-eight spoligotypes were identified: 2,153 isolates were grouped into 85 clusters, and the remaining 193 isolates were orphans. Comparison with the SpolDB4.0 database revealed that 118 spoligotypes had shared international type numbers in the database and the other 160 were novel....
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