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Tuberculosis genotyping--United States, 2004-2010.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report - 14 Sept 2012
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) genotyping is a laboratory-based genetic analysis of the bacteria that cause TB disease (i.e., any of the organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex). When combined with epidemiologic data, TB genotyping has sufficient discriminatory power to help find TB cases likely to be in the same chain of transmission or determine that cases are not related. Since 2004, >70,000 M. tuberculosis...
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