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Epidemiological studies of Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Taipei and other Asian cities based on MIRU profiles.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Sept 2011
Sun Jun-Ren, Dou Horng-Yun, Lee Shih-Yi, Chiueh Tzong-Shi, Lu Jang-Jih
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present study was to investigate the distribution of the Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in Taipei and other Asian cities. A total of 323 MTB isolates were analyzed by spacer oligonucleotide typing (spoligotyping) and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit (MIRU) typing. The largest cluster of the TB isolates from Taipei was type MT11 (MIRU type 2233-2517-3533). A comparison...
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