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One year nationwide evaluation of 24-locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping on Slovenian Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Oct 2011
Bidovec-Stojkovic Urska, Zolnir-Dovc Manca, Supply Philip
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BACKGROUND: Slovenia is one of the few countries where IS6110 RFLP is applied for genotyping M. tuberculosis at a nationwide level, which has been in effect since 2000. Based on S6110 RFLP clustering, typical risk factors and routes of M. tuberculosis transmission were identified, such as alcohol abuse, homelessness, and bars. However, IS6110 RFLP typing suffers from important limitations including a long wait...
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