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Dominant modern sublineages and a new modern sublineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family clinical isolates in Heilongjiang Province, China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2014
Li Di, Dong Cai-Bo, Cui Jia-Yi, Nakajima Chie, Zhang Chun-Lei, Pan Xin-Ling, Sun Gao-Xiang, Dai En-Yu, Suzuki Yasuhiko, Zhuang Min, Ling Hong
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family includes a variety of sublineages. Knowledge of the distribution of a certain sublineage of the Beijing family may help to understand the mechanisms of its rapid spread and to establish an association between a certain genotype and the disease outcome. We have previously found that M. tuberculosis Beijing family clinical isolates represent approximately 90% of the...
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