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[Pulmonary MAC disease and the mycobacterial genotyping].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Aug 2011
Kikuchi Toshiaki
Abstract excerpt
Although pulmonary MAC disease tends to have variable disease progression, predictors related to disease progression have not been fully established. With this background, we evaluated variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR) in 16 mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit loci of M. avium clinical isolates from respiratory specimens. Cluster analysis of the VNTR data showed that M. avium isolates from...
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