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Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from foreign-born patients in Korea.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Dec 2011
Jeon Christie Y, Kang HeeYoon, Kim Mihye, Murray Megan B, Kim Heejin, Cho Eun Hee, Park Young Kil
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Information on drug resistance and transmission patterns of tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born patients is lacking in Asia where immigration is increasing. We examined the drug-resistance profiles of 288 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from foreign-born patients in South Korea, and assessed for potential transmission in the host country by analysing their IS6110 genotypes, as well as those of 4780 strains from...
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