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Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from North Indian patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2013
Sankar Manimuthu Mani, Singh Jitendra, Diana Selvaraj Cynthiya Angelin, Singh Sarman
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Genotypic studies are important to understand the molecular epidemiology and transmission routes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the first and largest study from India, spoligotyping and 24 loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU) were performed to find genetic profiles of 125 M. tuberculosis strains isolated from patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and their drug susceptibility test...
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