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[Proposal of a five MIRU-VNTR panel to screen clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Mexico].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Nov 2015
Bolado-Martínez Enrique, Candia-Plata Maria Del Carmen, Zenteno-Cuevas Roberto, Mendoza Damián Fabiola, Avilés-Acosta Magali, Álvarez-Hernández Gerardo
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INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis is a public health problem across Mexico. This paper aims to select a panel, with a minimum number of repetitive elements (MIRU-VNTR) for genotypic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) clinical isolates. METHOD: In this study, a full panel of 24 MIRU-VNTR loci was used to discriminate 65 clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis from three different geographical...
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