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Relationship Between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phylogenetic Lineage and Clinical Site of Tuberculosis
23 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has revealed 4 major phylogenetic lineages with differential distribution worldwide. It is not clear whether different lineages are associated with different sites of infection (eg, pulmonary tuberculosis versus extrapulmonary tuberculosis). We sought to determine whether M. tuberculosis lineage is associated with the site of tuberculosis disease. METHODS: We...
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