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Genetic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the West Bank, Palestinian Territories.
BMC research notes - 7 Jun 2012
Ereqat Suheir, Nasereddin Abedelmajeed, Azmi Kifaya, Abdeen Ziad, Greenblatt Charles L, Spigelman Mark, Rastogi Nalin, Bar-Gal Gila Kahila
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BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared human tuberculosis (TB) a global health emergency and launched the "Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis" which aims to save a million lives by 2015. Global control of TB is increasingly dependent on rapid and accurate genetic typing of species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex including M. tuberculosis. The aim of this study was to identify and...
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