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[Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae in Guangdong province].
Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi - 1 May 2013
Li Ming, Wang Xiao-hua, Su Ting, Xing Yan, Weng Xiao-man
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OBJECTIVE: To understand the genotypes of Mycobacterium leprae collected from Guangdong province, China and to analyze the routes of leprosy transmission both inside and outside of Guangdong. The impact of emigrant leprosy patients to the endemic nature of the disease in Guangdong was also studied. METHODS: Typing on strains with variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)...
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