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Molecular characterization of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Jiangxi, China.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jul 2012
Yuan Xiaoliang, Zhang Tiantuo, Kawakami Kazuyoshi, Zhu Jiaxin, Li Hongtao, Lei Jianping, Tu Shaohua
Abstract excerpt
In this study, a total of 77 multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant (MDR and XDR, respectively) isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were characterized among samples from patients living in Jiangxi province, China. The following two approaches were used: (i) genotyping all drug-resistant isolates by the 15-locus MIRU-VNTR (mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit-variable-number tandem-repeat)...
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