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Innovations in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Mar 2011
García de Viedma Darío, Mokrousov Igor, Rastogi Nalin
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The application of genotyping tools to the analysis of tuberculosis (TB) has allowed us to identify clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to strain level. M. tuberculosis fingerprinting has been applied at different levels: a) in the laboratory, to optimize identification of cross-contamination events which can lead to a false diagnosis; b) in the patient, to determine whether recurrences are due to...
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