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Stranger in a strange land: Ibero-American strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Tibet, China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2014
Mokrousov Igor, Jiao Wei-Wei, Wan Kanglin, Shen Adong
Abstract excerpt
The Latin-American-Mediterranean (LAM) family is among the largest, diverse and intriguing within Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Widespread in some world regions, as justly reflected by its name, LAM remains in the shadow of the Beijing and East-African Indian families in East Asia. Here, we applied evolutionarily robust markers to the spoligotyped collection of 699 M. tuberculosis clinical isolates recovered from...
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