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Characterization of microevolution events in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains involved in recent transmission clusters.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2011
Pérez-Lago Laura, Herranz Marta, Lirola Miguel Martínez, Bouza Emilio, García de Viedma Darío
Abstract excerpt
Under certain circumstances, it is possible to identify clonal variants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infecting a single patient, probably as a result of subtle genetic rearrangements in part of the bacillary population. We systematically searched for these microevolution events in a different context, namely, recent transmission chains. We studied the clustered cases identified using a population-based universal...
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