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Genetic heterogeneity revealed by sequence analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis patients.
BMC genomics - 17 Jun 2013
Das Sarbashis, Roychowdhury Tanmoy, Kumar Parameet, Kumar Anil, Kalra Priya, Singh Jitendra, Singh Sarman, Prasad H K, Bhattacharya Alok
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BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem. Clinical tuberculosis manifests often as pulmonary and occasionally as extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. The emergence of drug resistant tubercle bacilli and its association with HIV is a formidable challenge to curb the spread of tuberculosis. There have been concerted efforts by whole genome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis to identify genomic...
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