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[Origin, phylogeny, and spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage in the five provinces of northern China].
Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi - 1 Apr 2013
Ding Peng-ju, Hui Ming, Liang Qian, Zhang Qian, Li Wei-min, Huang Hai-rong
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OBJECTIVE: Using methodology of molecular genetics to explore the origin, phylogen, and gene flow of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Beijing lineage in the five provinces from northern China, including Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Neimenggu and Ningxia. METHODS: 234 MTB Beijing lineage strains were genotyped by 24 Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR), and the h (the allelic diversity) value of each VNTR locus...
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