Article
Modern and ancestral genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Andhra Pradesh, India.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Thomas Shirly K, Iravatham Chitra C, Moni Bottu Heleena, Kumar Ashutosh, Archana Bandaru V, Majid Mohammad, Priyadarshini Yerra, Rani Pittu Sandhya, Valluri Vijayalakshmi, Hasnain Seyed E, Ahmed Niyaz
Abstract excerpt
Traditionally, the distribution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in India has been characterized by widespread prevalence of ancestral lineages (TbD1+ strains and variants) in the south and the modern forms (TbD1(-) CAS and variants) predominating in the north of India. The pattern was, however, not clearly known in the south-central region such as Hyderabad and the rest of the state of Andhra Pradesh...
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