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Epidemiological trends and clinical comparisons of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in Thai TB meningitis.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Nov 2011
Faksri Kiatichai, Drobniewski Francis, Nikolayevskyy Vladyslav, Brown Timothy, Prammananan Therdsak, Palittapongarnpim Prasit, Prayoonwiwat Naraporn, Chaiprasert Angkana
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains were isolated from cerebrospinal fluids collected from individual tuberculous meningitis (TBM) patients from 1996 to 2007 (n = 184) and characterised based on IS6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), spoligotyping, Mycobacterium interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) and large sequence polymorphisms (LSPs). Beijing strains...
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