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Highest prevalence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype isolates in patients newly diagnosed with tuberculosis in the Novosibirsk oblast, Russian Federation.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jul 2011
Dymova M A, Kinsht V N, Cherednichenko A G, Khrapov E A, Svistelnik A V, Filipenko M L
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In order to assess the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Novosibirsk Region and determine profiles of resistance, 106 M. tuberculosis isolates were analysed. Fifty (47 %) isolates were identified using variable number tandem repeat typing as being in the Beijing family, of which eight (16 %) were type M2 isolates with the genetic profile 233325153533424 and eight (16 %) were type M11 isolates...
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