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Genetic diversity, population structure and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Peru.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2012
Taype C A, Agapito J C, Accinelli R A, Espinoza J R, Godreuil S, Goodman S J, Bañuls A L, Shaw M A
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This paper presents the first evaluation of the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Peru. We characterised 323 isolates using spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units variable number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing. We aimed to determine the levels of genetic diversity and genetic differentiation among and within Peruvian isolates and the epidemiological factors which...
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