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Spoligotyping of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 May 2011
Miranda Silvana Spíndola de, Carvalho Wânia da Silva, Suffys Philip Noel, Kritski Afrânio Lineu, Oliveira Martha, Zarate Noemi, Zozio Thierry, Rastogi Nalin, Gicquel Brigitte
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We performed spoligotyping on 114 strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex that had been isolated from patients in Minas Gerais Health Units during 2004. A total of 82/114 (72%) clinical isolates were clustered and 32/114 (28%) were unique. Seven shared types containing nine strains were newly created. A total of nine patterns corresponded to unreported orphan strains, as evaluated against all of...
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