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Molecular typing and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Chongqing Municipality, China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Zhang Dan, An Jun, Wang Jianmin, Hu Chuan, Wang Zhengui, Zhang Ruyue, Wang Yufeng, Pang Yu
Abstract excerpt
China's tuberculosis (TB) burden is second only to that of India worldwide. In Chongqing, the largest municipality in southwestern China, although the prevalence of both TB and drug-resistant TB is higher than in other municipalities, the molecular characteristics and drug susceptibility phenotypes are poorly known. In this study, 297 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Chongqing were genotyped with spacer...
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