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Determination of drug susceptibility patterns and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Kanpur district, North India.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2011
Purwar Sankalp, Chaudhari Sudhir, Katoch V M, Sampath Arun, Sharma Pragya, Upadhyay Prashant, Chauhan Devendra Singh
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates has greatly facilitated the understanding of tuberculosis epidemiology. This study was done to characterize prevalent M. tuberculosis genotypes in a defined area of Kanpur district, North India by spoligotyping and IS6110-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) and to correlate the genotypes identified with their drug...
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